“History is a cookbook. The tyrants are chefs. The philosophers write menus. The priests are waiters. The military men are bouncers. The… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think… — Socrates Copy Share Image
My philosophy is to save, spend minimally, and buy things as much as you can on sale, never pay full price, and… — Russell Hornsby Copy Share Image
“Using your talent, hobby or profession in a way that makes you cintribute with something good to this world is truly the… — Simon Zingerman Copy Share Image
I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I would want to conceive of philosophy as grounded in the very long humanist tradition that is the best of the West,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I don't know that I have a single comedy philosophy. But talking about things that matter to you is a good place… — Ted Alexandro Copy Share Image
“We are seeds as well as parasites to the earth. We can either give or take, depending on our perception of growth.” — Zephyr McIntyre Copy Share Image
“When the landed gentry cut up a seed cake for tea it makes no difference to the cake which of them holds… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
“Tom felt his darkness. His father was beautiful and clever, his mother was short and mathematically sure. Each of his brothers and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every soul, the philosopher says, is involuntarily deprived of truth; consequently in the same way it is deprived of justice and temperance… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I think that there's room for everyone. I don't think that if one person succeeds then another must fail. That's lunacy. I'm… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
One should turn towards the main ocean of the-beautiful-in-the-world so that one may by, contemplation of this Form, bring forth in all… — Plato Copy Share Image
The Greek philosophies teach us that we are a combination of dark and light, good and evil, and murderer and savior, hmm?… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“You, too, are more than your worldview. Of course, philosophical arguments have a significant place in the history of the church and… — Russell Moore Copy Share Image
“Instead of heading for a big mental breakdown, I decided to have a small breakdown every Tuesday evening.” — Graham Parke Copy Share Image
“When I feel broken, I cry like the monsoons; and when I glue the pieces back together, I swell and surge like… — Subarna Prasad Acharya Copy Share Image
The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under a… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual.… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Ethically, I think pretty much every code of ethics for doctors suggests that they should not be in an interrogation room, particularly… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
It's very strange: if you're a philosopher or musician or an artist, people automatically believe you can see the future. Even if… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
“I don't write to be seen, I write so the world can see. I don't write to be heard, I write so… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“A philosopher is someone who promotes moral excellence, argues for moral excellence, and gets other people to behave morally and excellently based… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
There is a continuum between science and philosophy. As Fichte said (but did not practice), philosophy should be the science of sciences. — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
Sometimes I say philosophers should be at the table because they're the only people who know that they're not going to walk… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Color can be measured in the depth of ones' skin, however character is measured by the content of ones' heart.” — Mark W Boyer Copy Share Image
I've always had a philosophy: it doesn't matter who you love or how you love, the most important thing in life is… — Dave Clark Copy Share Image
“To paraphrase one of the greatest philosophers of our time-Winnie-the-Pooh-when asked how to spell a certain emotion, "You don't spell it, you… — Meik Wiking Copy Share Image
Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“If you have money but not love you will somehow manage, but if you don't have both then you are in serious… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Truth is a matter for theologians and philosophers. Politics is not concerned with the truth but with perceptions.” — Mathias Frey Copy Share Image
“When you’re given the gift of truth, you spend a lot of time trying to tone it down because it is already… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“I believe it was Gorgias who was first to posit the impossibility of ever prooving anything - in which case, it might… — Dan Garfat-Pratt Copy Share Image
My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I'm prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they're bad. — Omar Sharif Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare queried 'if music be the food of love, play on'; Well, I say laughter is life's champagne cocktail and humourlessness its… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“Man craves joy far more than anything else in life, but there is nothing as madly intoxicating as the feeling of joy… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“When fear and suffering are disliked by me and others equally what is so special about me that I protect myself and… — Śāntideva Copy Share Image
“The universal dress of philosophy and philanthropy can conceal repression, violations of the true personal, human, local, civil, and national freedom” — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
“A certain young scholar of Shiz Right before a philosophy quiz Guzzled splits of champagne So that he could declaim “I drink,… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
