The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of…

The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

“He thought to himself how, in some future time, when these formidable scientific inventions would have changed the face of the earth, some wayward…

— John Cowper Powy's i Wolf Solent i

Has a philosopher like you failed to discover that our country is more to be valued and higher and holier far than mother or…

— Socrates

I should like to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche somewhere in a train or a steamer, and to spend the whole night talking to…

— Anton Chekhov

“Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without…

— Mark Twain

You cannot believe what you are saying." "Well, no. Hardly ever. But the philosopher is like the poet. The latter composes ideal letters for…

— Umberto Eco

A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

“We live in an incredibly dynamic universe that gives us what we wish for, like a waking dream”

— Cynthia Sue Larson

“Asleep you can experience many hours whilst only a few waking moments have passed. This is why dreams are an ideal platform for training.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

In that daily effort in which intelligence and passion mingle and delight each other, the absurd man discovers a discipline that will make up…

— Albert Camus

Moskin has brought together with care and lucidity an inside history of American diplomacy written through the eyes of the many diplomats who conceived…

— Thomas R. Pickering

“We liked to believe there is an alternate world, a better world, populated entirely by characters created by the yearnings of humanity--governing and inspiring…

— Miguel Syjuco

In language that is searing and lyrical, evocative and precise, this exceptional book thinks with the zombies, specters, felons, slaves, dogs, cadavers, and other…

— Donna J. Haraway

Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision...In my experience a confused talker is never a clear thinker.

— David Lloyd George

“There is lucidity inspired by the nearness of the grave:to be close to death is to see clearly”

— Victor Hugo