Philosophy Quote by John Playfair Download Open image ““It were unwise to be sanguine, and unphilosophical to despair.”” — John Playfair ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Philosophy
“He was made uneasy by unbraked hilarity and by extremes of sorrow alike, especially the latter; he preferred life to sail along pleasantly and… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“He neither acquits nor condemns, but merely relates, and, just as a dream is more often painful than happy, so a tone of melancholy… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
“Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“For they were unseasoned, nor inured, not knowing this to be much less than the beginning of sorrow.” — David Jones Copy Share Image
“I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual despite of it...” — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
“I thank God for my sanguine temperament, which refuses to allow me to believe in disaster until it is finally manifest” — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
“The specific character of despair is precisely this: it is unaware of being despair.” — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Although stunned and hungry, many sang, because it would have been pointless to aggravate misfortune by complaining.” — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“...he was so horribly unhuman, that one shuddered to think that tender women and fair children must, of necessity, confess to fellowship of kind… — Marcus Clarke Copy Share Image
“Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.” — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their… — John Playfair Copy Share Image
“The ridge of the Lammer-muir hills... consists of primary micaceous schistus, and extends from St Abb's head westward... The sea-coast affords a transverse section… — John Playfair Copy Share Image
[To] explain the phenomena of the mineral kingdom ... systems are usually reduced to two classes, according as they refer to the origin of… — John Playfair Copy Share Image
Every river appears to consist of a main trunk, fed from a variety of branches, each running in a valley proportional to its size,… — John Playfair Copy Share Image
Thus we conclude, that the strata both primary and secondary, both those of ancient and those of more recent origin, have had their materials… — John Playfair Copy Share Image
To trace the series of these revolutions, to explain their causes, and thus to connect together all the indications of change that are found… — John Playfair Copy Share Image
Amid all the revolutions of the globe, the economy of Nature has been uniform, ... and her laws are the only things that have… — John Playfair Copy Share Image
“MIND & GRIND Self-belief and hard work can propel you past more talented peers” — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“It takes tremendous courage, persistence, and perseverance to pursue your ultimate purpose.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
“This is what is called "honor among thieves," for the really dangerous people are those who do not recognize that they are thieves— the… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
But I think that of all the literature that I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
“The spirit of our accurate and exact philosophy is outraged by conclusions that contradict each other so glaringly.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I never knew any man who had once tasted the sweetness of experimental knowledge, that ever afterward fasted after ye Vapour garlick and onions… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
“I fight with love and kindness as my weapons and compassion as my defense.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
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