A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more…

As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

I've been practicing modalities of Eastern philosophy since about 1972. What I've learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of…

— Anonymous

Speciesism: A failure, in attitude or practice, to accord any nonhuman being equal consideration and respect

— Joan Dunayer

[T]here is a methodological bias in favor of taking natural discourse literally, other things being equal. For example, unless there are clear reasons for…

— Tyler Burge

“If the tradition which claims that war may be justified does not also admit that it could be unjustified, the affirmation is not morally…

— Anonymous

Don’t ever underestimate the importance of money. I know it’s often been said that money won’t make you happy and this is undeniably true,…

— Groucho Marx

If the land was divided among all the inhabitants of a country, so that each of them possessed precisely the quantity necessary for his…

— Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

Miss Jenkyns wore a cravat, and a little bonnet like a jockey-cap, and altogether had the appearance of a strong-minded woman; although she would…

— Anonymous

A sick man, surrounded by those who love him, nursed by those who wish earnestly that he should live, will recover (all other things…

— Honore de Balzac

Do not Bodies act upon Light at a distance, and by their action bend its Rays; and is not this action (caeteris paribus) [all…

— Isaac Newton

Other things being equal, ill will is worse than moral indifference (as in causing suffering for money vs causing suffering to cause suffering), though…

— Nomy Arpaly

I don't wanna be equal with anybody. I wanna be above equal. I don't think most people are equal to me. I'd like to…

— Patti Smith

If we can't have comedy books written about aspects of womanhood without going into a panic attack about it, then we haven't got very…

— Helen Fielding

If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard…

— Baruch Spinoza

Other things being equal, it is the person who can lift his work up to the plane of the intuitional and inspiration who achieves…

— Stanwood Cobb