Quotes About Perspective

Argue as if you are right and listen as if you are wrong.

I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.

If you throw money out of the window throw it out with joy. Don't say: 'one shouldn't do that' - that is bourgeois.

Think pink but don't wear it

There is nothing worse than bringing up the 'good old days.' To me, that's the ultimate acknowledgment of failure.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

An abundance of good friends does not lead to better philosophy .

Philosophers have hitherto interpreted the world in various way; the point, however, is to change it

The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is, to change it

It's possible that I shall make an ass of myself. But in that case one can always get out of it with a little dialectic. I have, of course, so worded my proposition as to be right either way.

The ruling ideas of each age have [n]ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

Kids are like farts in that way. They never seem to bother the owner as much as they bother everyone else.

I've heard goldfish grow to the size of their surroundings; so does furniture.

The best thing about me is probably my eyes, but then I suppose my eyes would think that, as it's them that are looking at them.

Karl Pilkington

People say having kids is life changing, well that doesn't necessarily mean a good thing, does it? I could take one of my legs off. That would change me life.

If you're worrying about the colour of your anus, things must be good, as you can't have proper worries in your life.

For example, do we think that we have to HAVE money so we can DO the fun things in life that we want to do, so we can BE happy? In reality it's just the other way around. We are better off BE-ing first, so that we can DO, so that we can HAVE. HAVING is a natural by-product of BE-ing.

When you're going in the right direction, life always looks larger than what you're accustomed to.

Fall?" he repeated. "Say more like flying, as if someone threw you. What  .  .  . was that?" I chewed on my words before I let them out. "I  .  .  . sometimes have little disagreements with  .  .  . um, with reality. And physics.

I don't think I'm nuts, though, and I don't think you do, either, but you have to make up your own mind. Nothing works if you don't start there.

No matter how much of it I've seen, other people's grief leaves me feeling embarrassed, as if I've peeked through their bedroom windows.

Patricia embraces me on the station platform. 'The past is what you leave behind in life, Ruby,' she says with the smile of a reincarnated lama. 'Nonsense, Patricia,' I tell her as I climb on board my train. 'The past's what you take with you.

One's own life seemed puny against the background of so much history.