Armchair Philosopher Quotes & Sayings

There's a huge difference between fucking someone and making love to them. You haven't fucked me in more than a month. Every time you're inside me, you're making love to me. I can see it in the way you look at me. You miss me when we aren't together. You think about me all the time. You can't even wait 10 seconds to walk in your own front door before coming to see me. So don't you dare try to tell me you've been clear form day one, because you are the murkiest goddamn man I've ever met. — Colleen Hoover

You don't get unity by ignoring the questions that have to be faced. — Jay Weatherill

I don't believe this," Morelli yelled. "I don't fucking believe this. What do you do, sit in bed at night and think about ways to fuck up my life? — Janet Evanovich

So let's start at the very begining (a very good place to start ... ) — James St. James

All matters being spiritual; man or woman can only find peace when peace is realized from within. — T.F. Hodge

I thank God for every experience. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The true philosopher is a man who says "All right," and goes to sleep in his armchair. — P.G. Wodehouse

I'd love to interview Mick Jagger, but that might be scary. — Alexa Chung

The Templeton Foundation distributes $70 million yearly in grants and fellowships. To put that in perspective, that's five times the amount dispensed annually by the U.S. National Science Foundation for research in evolutionary biology, one of Templeton's areas of focus. Given Templeton's deep pockets and not overly stringent criteria for dispensing money, it's no wonder that, in a time of reduced financial support, scientists line up for Templeton grants. — Jerry A. Coyne

By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench. — Ian Hacking

The mind is not sealed in the skull but extends throughout the body. We think not only with our brain but also with our eyes and ears, nose and mouth, limbs and torso. And when we use tools to extend our grasp, we think with them as well. "Thinking, or knowledge-getting, is far from being the armchair thing it is often supposed to be," wrote the American philosopher and social reformer John Dewey in 1916. "Hands and feet, apparatus and appliances of all kinds are as much a part of it as changes in the brain."51 To act is to think, and to think is to act. — Nicholas Carr

You should never be ashamed of the suffering you've been through. — Robert Thurman

surely you're enough of an armchair philosopher to realize that everything is a reconstruction of something else? Reality is a desperate and evasive creature. — Jeff VanderMeer