Quotes About Perspective

That's the interesting thing about the philosophy — to accomplish the grand, you have to focus on the small. To exist in the eternal perspective, you have to live in the moment.

I don't have a philosophy. I have a camera.

What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

The map is not the territory.

when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.

To be a different kind of parent, you don't just need a different parenting philosophy. You need a very different view of what a child actually is.

Before you hate something you should try to understand it.

Please, don't worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting.

That's why I love philosophy: no one wins.

Don't judge me, you could be me in another life.

The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as he so far views it

We've become a race of Peeping Toms. What people ought to do is get outside their own house and look in for a change. Yes sir. How's that for a bit of homespun philosophy?

Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.

Initial response illustrates a great deal about someone's personal philosophy.

Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can't see anything.

The environment you fashion out of your thoughts, your beliefs, your ideals, your philosophy is the only climate you will ever live in. The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.

The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.

Whenever you're pissed off, just remember that it's better than being pissed on.

For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere

I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.

Everything is beautiful in its own way.

Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological.

Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.