Humor Quote by Jonathan L. Howard

“My metaphysical thinking is more in alignment with Plato rather than Aristotle's." ~R. Alan Woods [2013]”

— R. Alan Woods

“Eventually you ascend the stairs to the street. You think of Plato's pilgrims climbing out of the cave, from the shadow world of appearances…

— Jay McInerney

“Philosophy is a high mountain road…an isolated road and becomes even more desolate the higher we ascend. Whoever pursues this pass should know no…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“I stumbled upon Friedrich Nietzsche when I was 17, following the usual trail of existential candies—Camus, Sartre, Beckett—that unsuspecting teenagers find in the woods.…

— Gary Kamiya

“He lived within himself, nourished by his own substance, like some torpid creature which hibernates in caves. Solitude had reacted upon his brain like…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

Thus, from admiration of one wise and innocent child, and from a misheard remark, the process that not even Aristotle could codify was triggered.…

— Harlan Ellison

“In the philosopher, on the contrary, there is absolutely nothing impersonal; and above all, his morality furnishes a decided and decisive testimony as to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“with a moral compass fixed permanently on diabolical. He was an emotional cripple with the personality of a cactus. He understood his faults and…

— Francette Phal

“Besides, he was a philosopher; he smoked a good many cigars over his disappointment, and in the fulness of time he got used to…

— Henry James

“He thought the best thing he had gained in Paris was a complete liberty of spirit, and he felt himself at last absolutely free.…

— William Somerset Maugham

Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ Aristotle ... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious...”

— Francis Bacon