Emotion Quote by John C. Wright Download Open image “A philosopher goes where the truth leads and has no patience with mere emotion.” — John C. Wright ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Emotion Goes Leads Mere Patience Philosopher Philosophy Truth Where
The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The true philosopher is one who makes people believe that he admires what he does not admire. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Philosophy ... must not bargain away anything of the emphatic concept of truth. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth. — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
The philosopher is someone who doesn't know, but who wants to find out. — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant; but, the moment she is pressed hard by an enemy,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, emotion without truth produces empty frenzy and cultivates shallow people who refuse the discipline of rigorous thought.” — John Piper Copy Share Image
A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead. — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
“The sensation of a baseball bat to the face was not any more pleasant when it came from an unexpected direction, without warning.” — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
“Truth destroys the worst in man; pleasure destroys the best. If you love truth more than happiness, then open; otherwise, let rest.” His” — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
Men's souls are crooked and unsound things, not good materials out of which to build friendships, families, households, cities, civilizations. But good or no,… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
“You were burning in the middle of the worst solar storm our records can remember. (...) Everyone else fled. All your companions and crew… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
“All medieval and classic cultures of the ancient world, including those on which Tolkien modeled his elves, routinely exposed their young and marriageable women… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
“On THE AMBER SPYGLASS: "If this plotline was a motorist, it would have been arrested for driving while intoxicated, if it had not perished… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
“She said, “Look me right in the eye, and tell me you don’t love me, and I’ll go.” He stared at her. “Miss, I… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
“Of the seven Archons that had combined to form the Milky Way mind, Orion had been the Archon whose verve and remorseless drive inspired… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
“Euryphaean, and the music of an instrument called a pianoforte, infinite resistance coil and the sanity glass, and all the inventions that sprang from” — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
“Dr. Henry Templeton got the drop on me after I killed his grandfather before he was born. Apparently, that wasn’t enough to stop the… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
Greek myths are heroic, noble and tragic; but the American Dream is heroic, comical, and uplifting. Americans are a people in whom overweening ambition… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
It definitely helps to have the acting experience going into singing, because when you're singing, you have to portray the emotion you were feeling… — Ryan Newman Copy Share Image
It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
For me, the term "psychotherapy" is limiting. It implies that we work with mind and emotions, but excludes the body and pays scant attention… — Jed Diamond Copy Share Image
People are disturbed not by things but by the view they take of them. They may forget what you said, but they will never… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
There cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator. — Alain Resnais Copy Share Image
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Music [is] the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours. To feel something. To… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image