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Quotes About Perspective

Unless one's philosophy is all-inclusive, nothing can be understood.
~ Mary Ritter Beard
One person will eat meat and it will lower their attention field. Another person won't even be affected by it because they're not in the state of mind whereby they'll be affected by it.
~ Frederick Lenz
You may be wrong, but you may be right.
~ Billy Joel
Philosophy means liberation from the - routine, soaring above the well known, seeing it in new perspectives, arousing wonder and the wish to fly.
~ Walter Kaufmann
I conceive of nothing, in religion, science or philosophy, that is more than the proper thing to wear, for a while.
~ Charles Fort
Especially the transcendental philosophy needs the leaven of humor to render it light and digestible.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I've imparted that philosophy to the writers, but some of them look stuff up while some don't. Same with the editors, directors and actors. To each their own.
~ Vince Gilligan
At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I like to think that death gives life meaning. I like that philosophy.
~ Kirsten Dunst
I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.
~ Thomas Carlyle
The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of London, Paris, and Munich.
~ Anatole France
A map is the dead body of where you've been. A map is the unborn baby of where you're going. There are no maps. Maps are pictures of what isn't.
~ Russell Hoban
the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.
~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon
It doesn't really matter what you do. It is your state of mind that matters.
~ Frederick Lenz
Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
My philosophy is pretty simple – any day nobody's trying to kill me is a good day in my book.
~ Karen Marie Moning
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Just think! This whole world of ours is only a speck of mildew sprung up on a tiny planet, yet we think we can have something great - thoughts, , actions! They are all but grains of sand
~ Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
People are wonderful one at a time. Each one of them has an entire hologram of the universe somewhere within them.
~ George Carlin, Last Words
All I want to do now is look at life. You may come and look at it with me, if you care to.
~ Oscar Wilde
If you cannot change your condition, change your perception.
~ Debasish Mridha
Living on earth and expecting to be surrounded by angels?Sure recipe for a heartache!
~ Asma Naqi