Quotes About Perspective

Philosophy, for me, is a way of relearning to look at the world, a world that is familiar to us, that we know, that is shared by all human beings and also by nonhuman beings.

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.

It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.

What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.

If the rest of your brain were conscious, it would probably regard you as the pointy-haired boss from Dilbert

Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.

God bless America. But God, please help Canada.

... we can bear with great philosophy the sufferings of others, especially if we do not actually see them.

Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.

Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.

The emblem of a philosophy is not that it contains a set of specific thoughts , but that it generates a way of thinking.

Me, what's that after all? An arbitrary limitation of being bounded by the people before and after and on either side. Where they leave off I begin, and vice versa.

it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.

You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light.

If you appreciate the small things, you're likely to get the big ones.

The hardest thing for a sane person to do is not care what anyone thinks, although everyone swears by it, hence our glorification of insanity.

If you keep your eyes so fixed on heaven that you never look at the earth, you will stumble into hell.

There are essentially three types of people: those who love life more than they fear it, those who fear life more than they love it, and those who have no clue what I'm talking about.

Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.'

But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.

If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.

I'm not on the court anymore, so no use looking for my philosophy. If somebody's waiting for that, they can wait for another justice.

Cinema for me is an area of philosophy and artistic statement.

Virtue is relative at best, there's nothing worse than a sunset when your driving due West.