Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics…

In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.

— Will Durant

Whatever has a tendency to promote the civil intercourse of nations by an exchange of benefits is a subject as worthy of philosophy as…

— Thomas Paine

Philosophy is not politics, and we do our best, within our all-too-human limitations, to seek the truth, not to score points against opponents. There…

— Peter Singer

“In philosophy, politics, and business, too, arguing over process has become a way to endlessly defer making concrete plans for a better future.”

— Peter Thiel

Conservatism, for me, is the philosophy and the politics of attachment.

— Roger Scruton

“Social dynamic theory is philosophy, not politics. There can't be only one correct answer, or there would only be one book." Sharon L Reddy,…

— Sharon L. Reddy

There is nothing in art, in philosophy, or in politics to match the fervor of mutual cooperation among discordant bands of fanatics.

— Alan Dean Foster

I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics,…

— Thomas Jefferson

As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer…

— Edward Abbey

I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part…

— Patricia Kaas

“Let’s call my mood melancholy; let’s call it remembrance. Or maybe let’s call it longing. Yes, let’s call it longing instead.”

— Shannon Celebi

“How she listened, the first time, to the sonorous lamentations of romantic melancholia echoing out across heaven and earth! If her childhood had been…

— Gustave Flaubert

If you look at Kirsten Dunst's performance in 'Melancholia,' which I think is absolutely wonderful - it's not even in the text, because she…

— Stellan Skarsgard

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the…

— Graham Greene

“We're in the business of melancholia and we are married to our work.”

— Casey Renee Kiser