In Spain, Dos Passos found bombs horrifying, bloodshed gruesome, anarchists hounded by a Stalinist Camarilla, the People’s Front conceding to Anglo-French Imperialism and suppressing socialism. He consequently criticized the Stalinists to his companion. (Ernest Hemingway) Hemingway found bombs intriguing, bloodshed exciting, anarchists “treasonable,” the People’s Front noble, socialism nonsense. He consequently denounced his companion (John […]
Point Of View Quotes
I have not written this book to draw any moral about the past. Nor do I claim that it is “the” truth about the events and persons discussed. Others may have experienced them differently. Although not everything can be seen from any one perspective, what is seen from that perspective is no less true. Some […]
If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life, Never make a pretty woman your wife, From my personal point of view, Get an ugly girl to marry you. A pretty woman makes her husband look small, And very often causes his downfall. As soon as he marries her then she starts to […]
Nothing’s beautiful from every point of view.
The importance of ‘nonsense’ can hardly be overstated. The more clearly we experience something as nonsense, the more clearly we are experiencing the boundaries of our own self-imposed cognitive structures. Nonsense is that which does not fit into the pre-arranged patterns we have superimposed on reality. Nonsense is nonsense only when we have not yet […]
Luke, you’re going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view. (Obi-Wan Kenobi)
The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place.
