Quotes About Perspective

My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I'm not a sad man, and I don't believe I sadden anyone else.

The menu is not the meal.

We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer.

Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.

Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting.

Because men have so long ruled the world, it does not follow that the philosophy by which they have ruled it is the correct one.

What if life is just a cosmic joke, like spiders in your underwear.

Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.

All Philosophy is Biography

There is your truth and there is my truth. As for the universal truth, it does not exist.

By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.

The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils everywhere among us.

Life is just a bag of pot.

You can't change the mind with the mind alone, or we'd all be enlightened

Philosophy is everybody's business.

There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.

Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it.

Think small.... If you can't think small, try philosophy or social criticism.

One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.

I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life.

The whole point of view of the anarchist is that everything must start from the bottom up, from man. It seems to me so human a philosophy.

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.