Cass McCombs Quotes

I perceive and relate to the world through where I grew up; that's part of me. It's what I judge everything else against.

The world is how we see the world. Some people see the world good, the other people see the world bad. Every person has an idea of the world with a subjective [viewpoint].

It's easier to be skeptical because it's easier to understand that every human lives in their own world.

It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous: if we sought a universal measure the strange and miraculous would not occur and all things would be equal.

What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things.

I don't care how nice one is to you, the thing you must always remember is that almost never does he really see you as he sees himself, as he sees his own kind.

One feels the insignificance of the individual, and it makes one happy.

Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.

That's the thing about being an artist, you don't have to take anyone else's perspective into account. You can act as self-indulgent in your emotions as you want.

These are not easy questions. Who am I? Why am I here? They're not easy because the human being isn't wired to function as an individual.

An ignorant man believes that the whole universe only exists for him: as if nothing else required any consideration. If, therefore, anything happens to him contrary to his expectation, he at once concludes that the whole universe is evil. If, however, he would take into consideration the whole universe, form an idea of it, and comprehend what a small portion he is of the Universe, he will find the truth. There are many ... passages in the books of the prophets expressing the same idea.

The truth never becomes clear as long as we assume that each one of us, individually, is the center of the universe.

Life can show up no other way than that way in which you perceive it.

Les masses ont tort et les individus toujours raison. The masses are wrong; individuals are always right.

Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.

Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception.

My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.

Just each of us being me, me, me first. The murderer, the victim, the witness each of us thinks our role is the lead. Probably that goes for anybody in the world.

I don't see people as groups, I see them as individuals.

We see the world, not as it is, but as we are -- or, as we are conditioned to see it. When we open our mouths to describe what we see, we in effect describe ourselves, our perceptions, our paradigms.

We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it.

Life is like a recycling center, where all the concerns and dramas of humankind get recycled back and forth across the universe. But what you have to offer is your own sensibility, maybe your own sense of humor or insider pathos or meaning. All of us can sing the same song, and there will still be four billion different renditions.

I think everyone does selective reading. Everybody has a filter, and that is real easy for critics to see things from their perspectives, and I'm going, I didn't mean that at all. And believers do the same.

You'd have to walk a thousand miles in my shoes just to see what its like to be me!!

To be a true icon, you have to have style emanating from you. And you have to have figured it out on your own and have a point of view, a perspective, and be able to translate it in some personal way.