Quotes About Perspective

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

Belief creates the actual fact.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

It would probably astound each of us beyond measure to be let into his neighbors mind and to find how different the scenery was there from that of his own.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you mustn't seek to show that no crows are; it is enough if you prove one single crow to be white.

Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.

Damn the Absolute!

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries?

Wisdom is seeing something in a non-habitual manner.

I know that you, ladies and gentlemen, have a philosophy, each and all of you, and that the most interesting and important thing about you is the way in which it determines the perspective in your several worlds.

The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be.

A Beethoven string-quartet is truly, as some one has said, a scraping of horses' tails on cats' bowels, and may be exhaustively described in such terms; but the application of this description in no way precludes the simultaneous applicability of an entirely different description.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

It's turtles all the way down.

It never occurs to most of us .. that the question 'what is the truth' is no real question (being irrelative to all conditions) and that the whole notion of the truth is an abstraction from the fact of truths in the plural, a mere useful summarizing phrase like the Latin language or the Law.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

It matters not to an empiricist from what quarter an hypothesis may come to him: he may have acquired it by fair means or by foul; passion may have whispered or accident suggested it; but if the total drift of thinking continues to confirm it, that is what he means by its being true.

If I should now utter piercing shrieks and act like a maniac on this platform, it would make many of you revise your ideas as to the probable worth of my philosophy.

The error is needed to set off the truth, much as a dark background is required for exhibiting the brightness of a picture. And

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths

Our environment encourages us not to be philosophers but partisans.

The finally victorious way of looking at things will be the most completely IMPRESSIVE way to the normal run of minds.