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Philosophical Quotes by Robert Breault
- I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime.
- Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane.
- I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose.
- In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me?
- What you discover in a democracy is that it is difficult to build a house when each nail has an opinion.
- There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies.
- There was never a wise saying that couldn't be made wiser by adding the words, "and vice-versa.
- If you understand compound interest, you basically understand the universe.
- Sometimes an answer not yet blowin' in the wind is stirring in the breeze.
- There are things I have wanted so long that I would only consent to have them if I could keep wanting them.
- I am not certain of the hereafter. Frankly, I'm not all that certain of the here.
- We are each a dozen people who were all the same child.
More Philosophical Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle