Ken Kesey Quotes

What's wan man's news is another man's throubles.

No two people see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will often apply the same principle, recognized by both, differently. Even one and the same person won't always maintain the same views and judgments: earlier convictions must give way to later ones.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers.

People have a lot of different beliefs, and at the end of the day, we all have deeply held beliefs that probably don't make sense to anyone else.

Opinions only carry weight in the second or third person.

What one person might see as violent, someone else may see as beautiful. Maybe even art.

Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably the dictionary.

How many people have different opinions in this world? Every different person has a different opinion of what that bottle really is or what colour it is. If I say that bottle is clear, there will be someone out there telling me that bottle is green or blue.

History is nothing but a procession of false absolutes.

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions.

My view is my view. Your view is your view.

The universe would appear to be something like a piece of cheese; it can be sliced in an infinite number of ways- and when one has chosen his own pattern of slicing, he finds that other men's cuts fall at the wrong places.

How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!

The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.

We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.

One person's crazy is another person's sane, I guess.

There are as many "real worlds" as there are people!

Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon . . . is not the dragon the hero of his own story?

You have to believe it and you hate it. I don't have to and I think it's beautiful.

The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons.

Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.

No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.

Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.