"Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are"
Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell (1993)
As quoted in Hindu Psychology : Its Meaning for the West (1946) by Swami Akhilananda, p. 204
“Oh dear God, one misses the land when is far away.”
TV show with Ednita Nazario
Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself" / aphorism 513
Human, All Too Human (1878), Helen Zimmern translation
“Oncoming traffic appears closer in the rearview mirror.”
Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)
Source: The Shoes of Happiness, and Other Poems (1913), The Crowning Hour, II
On his film Blow-Up, as quoted in Michelangelo Antonioni : The Complete Films (2004) edited by Seymour Chatman and Paul Duncan, p. 113
Context: The photographer in Blow-Up, who is not a philosopher, wants to see things closer up. But it so happens that, by enlarging too far, the object itself decomposes and disappears. Hence there's a moment in which we grasp reality, but then the moment passes. This was in part the meaning of Blow-Up.
“We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future.”
1960s, The Medium is the Message (1967)
