Quotes About Perspective

The world I believe is far too serious, and being far too serious ... it has need of a wise and merry philosophy.

Imagining something is better than remembering something.

What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

I rather despise claims to objectivity in philosophy; the point of view is the thing.

The thing that will make the biggest difference to your business, your bank account, your health and your relationships in the next 12 months is your philosophy

What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.

Things always become obvious after the fact

Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!

There's no one way to dance. And that's kind of my philosophy about everything.

Choose to be happy. It is what we have all done.

He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed.

I'm sure there's some philosophy that says one of the best ways to deal with any of your problems is to take a deep breath and step away from them for a while, writing does this for me.

You've got a degree in philosophy; so you think you're cleverer than me. But I'm not just some drama queen. Cause it's where you're at, not where you've been.

The province of philosophy is not so much to prevent calamities befalling as to demonstrate that they are blessings when they have taken place.

The sweetest things in life to you were just loaned, so how can you lose what you've never owned.

My definition (of a philosopher) is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.

Paradise is a state of mind.

In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.

History should be written as philosophy.

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

The historian records, but the novelist creates.

Philosophy can't build bridges, but can encourage people to cross them.

How many lives we live in one, And how much less than one, in all.

Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.