“Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you will be happy. If you get a bad one, youll become… — Socrates Copy Share Image
A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject. — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
If you will take my advice you will think little of Socrates, and a great deal more of truth. — Socrates Copy Share Image
“You seem to be in a state of such absolute contradiction that I would not be surprised if your face tore in… — Mary-Jean Harris Copy Share Image
“We are way less likely to love someone just because they love us than we are to hate someone just because they… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
I believe that any individual who has spiritually awakened in our time, to the degree that he or she finds a higher… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
Talk about polygamy! There is no true philosopher on the face of the earth but what will admit that such a system,… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Everyone now agrees that a physics lacking all connection with mathematics ... would only be an historical amusement, fitter for entertaining the… — Franz Karl Achard Copy Share Image
“philosopher in question made much of human existence as a tragedy that need not have been were it not for the intervention… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Never call yourself a philosopher, nor talk a great deal among the unlearned about theorems, but act conformably to them. Thus, at… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“If you ever happen to turn your attention to externals, for the pleasure of any one, be assured that you have ruined… — Epictetus Epictetus Copy Share Image
Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
There was a Greek philosopher who taught that, of all things, not to have been born is the sweetest state. But I… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Nobody can be saved from anything, unless they save themselves. It is hopeless doing things for people - it is often very… — T. H. White Copy Share Image
“He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“I suppose that, so long as the human mind exists, it will not escape its deep-seated instinct to personify its intellectual conceptions.… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“It goes without saying that even those of us who are going to hell will get eternal life—if that territory really exists… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The absolutist lays down the law, but the relativist hears only roaring and bawling. Or, when the relativist voice, as it is… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
“A philosopher,' said Mrs. Cantanker, stalking across the study, black heels clicking, ruby silks whispering around her ankles, 'is one who attempts… — Stefan Bachmann Copy Share Image
“You can’t tolerate a decent and swift conclusion to a skirmish between an individual and what you call society, as long as… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
whoever is so stupid as to imagine God to be either masculine or feminine openly shows that he is as bad a… — Marie de Gournay Copy Share Image
Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Two of my favorite political philosophers, Mao Zedong and Mother Teresa - not often coupled with each together, but the two people… — Anita Dunn Copy Share Image
“Where other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I was born in France. My father was a renowned French philosopher and journalist, and my mother was a painter. So I… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Aristotle wore many rings and expensive clothes. ... Plato found this off-putting and unsuited for a philosopher. — Claudius Aelianus Copy Share Image
By all means, get married: if you find a good wife, you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher — Socrates Copy Share Image
Here's one more from my limited experience with all 3 fields: A writer creates life; a poet creates magic from life; a… — Siddharth Katragadda Copy Share Image
What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Yes, it's rather funny, really, that next to no-one realized the snake that Harry set free in Philosopher's Stone turned out to… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Philosophers can debate the meaning of life, but you need a Lord who can declare the meaning of life. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
One philosopher has rightly said that property is theft. But I'd like to use my future ownership of property to give something… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“To a philosopher all news is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
It is easy for men to write and talk like philosophers, but to act with wisdom, there is the rub! — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
