Perspective

Perspective is an angle or point of view from which to sense, categorize, measure or codify experience. One of its meanings is a philosophical point of view or epistemic perspective, as discussed in a separate article.

Quotes

• I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may-light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
  • John Constable Art Is the Highest Form of Hope & Other Quotes by Artists by Phaidon (2016)

• So much of our human resourcefulness comes from having multiple ways to describe the same situations—so that each one of those different perspectives may help us to get around the deficiencies of the other ones.
  • Marvin Minsky (2006) The Emotion Machine

• Advances in transportation, communication, and entertainment have transformed the world. The sword of science is double-edged. ... Its awesome power forces on all of us, including politicians, a new responsibility — more attention to the long-term consequences of technology, a global and transgenerational perspective, an incentive to avoid easy appeals to nationalism and chauvinism. Mistakes are becoming too expensive.
  • Carl Sagan, "Why We Need To Understand Science" in The Skeptical Inquirer Vol. 14, Issue 3 (Spring 1990)

• The perspective on ourselves that we get when we take the point of view of the universe also yields as much objectivity as we need if we are to find a cause that is worthwhile in a way that is independent of our own desires. The most obvious such cause is the reduction of pain and suffering, wherever it is to be found.
  • Peter Singer, Writings on an Ethical Life (2000), p. 238

See also

• Point of view