Oddly, since by now I've written quite a lot on early modern philosophers, I didn't care for the history of philosophy, which… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When we reflect on our past sentiments and affections, our thought is a faithful mirror, and copies its objects truly; but the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Sunrays, leaning on our southern hills and lighting Wild cloud-mountains that drag the hills along, Oft ends the day of your shifting… — George Meredith Copy Share Image
The Christian Bible is a drug store. It´s contents have remained the same but the medical practice continues. For 1,800 years these… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know-and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I believed in a good home, in sane and sound living, in good food, good times, work, faith and hope. I have… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
My own experience is that the Bible is dull when I am dull. When I am really alive, and set in upon… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
In comparison to the French Revolution, the American Revolution has come to seem a parochial and rather dull event. This, despitethe fact… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
Our society cannot afford a two-tiered system in which the affluent have access to superior education, while everyone else is subjected to… — E. D. Hirsch, Jr Copy Share Image
Never invite to dinner: those who won't decide until the last minute; those who come more than half an hour late; those… — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Abstract understanding doesn't mean arbitrary sloshing and messing. Abstract art is controlled visual magic based on laws and methodology. Abstraction generally involves… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
Have you seen how fish are able to swim in a school so precisely relating to their fish-fellows and never clumsily bump… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You're looking, sir, at a very dull survivor of a very gaudy life. Crippled, paralyzed in both legs. Very little I can… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Death," said Akiva. His life was leaving him fast now that he no longer held his wound. His eyes just wanted to… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
He who wishes to fight must first count the cost. When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming,… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
My son craves picture books about Transformers and Ninja Turtles and the Hulk; they show one fantastic creature smashing or zapping another… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
When people think girl adventurers, they tend to think of a spunky, plucky tom-boy with a chip on her shoulder. I'm not… — Ted Naifeh Copy Share Image
Part of my methodological approach is made explicit when I discuss ways in which literature can have philosophical significance. Literature doesn't typically… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
You don't scare me, Cadence Jones. I've lived with crazy, I've ridden with crazy, I've vacationed with crazy, I've visited crazy in… — MaryJanice Davidson Copy Share Image
Viewed from the genuine abolition ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent; but measuring him by the sentiment of his… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
For myself, I like a universe that, includes much that is unknown and, at the same time, much that is knowable. A… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Let me take once again a rough parable. Suppose I advertised in the papers that I had a place for any one… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If it hadn't been for record people like Ralph Peer, the Chess brothers, and Alan Lomax, then life would've been unbelievably dull,… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
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Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There remain a few people in NASA who are there to accomplish great things; but most of NASA now consists of the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
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Baseball is the slow creation of something beautiful. It is the almost boringly paced accumulation of what seems slight or incidental into… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
[Children are] like talking animals. Their consciousness is so different from ours that they constitute a different species. They don't have to… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
We fall in love because we long to escape from ourselves with someone as beautiful, intelligent, and witty as we are ugly,… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Renowned management guru Peter F.Drucker looked back at his 65-year consulting career shortly before he died. He concluded that great leaders could… — Robert I. Sutton Copy Share Image
There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
O give me new figures! I can't go on dancing The same that were taught me ten seasons ago; The schoolmaster over… — Thomas Haynes Bayly Copy Share Image
Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? And when he soars upward in joy,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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People who live in quiet, remote places are apt to give good dinners. They are the oft-recurring excitement of an otherwise unemotional,… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
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