Individual Perspective Quotes

None of us see the world as it is but as we are, as our frames of reference, or maps, define the territory.

Every book is a unique experience.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of their own imagination.

Reality is not so much what happens to us; rather, it is how we think about those events that create the reality we experience. In a very real sense, this means that we each create the reality in which we live.

I would not score very highly on religious value.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

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

We have lost the elections; and it is natural that each of us will believe, and say, it has been because his peculiar views was not made sufficiently prominent.

I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing to do with my life.

For me, clothing has always been connected to history. That's what draws me in.

Every hero is the villain of his own story.

When I listen to a symphony I love, I don't get from it what the composer got. His 'Yes' was different from mine. He could have no concern for mine and no exact conception of it. That answer is too personal to each man. But in giving himself what he wanted, he gave me a great experience.

"This - is now my way - where is yours"? Thus did I answer those who asked me "the way". For the way - it does not exist!

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.

It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth. It is my ears which hear, and the hearing of my ears gives its song to the world. It is my mind which thinks, and the judgement of my mind is the only searchlight that can find the truth. It is my will which chooses, and the choice of my will is the only edict I must respect.

A man is himself important precisely in proportion that all things seem important to him.

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.

We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.

I've always been conservative. I was born that way.

Nothing in life has any meaning except the meaning you give it.

The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.

And this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure; we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to bear witness only to the outside. Such is the riddle of life and the story of the passing of our days.

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

Live is meaningful only if you gave it a meaning.

Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other than the sense you choose.