Buffone Italian Quotes & Sayings

Philosophers and common heathen believed one God, to whom all things were referred; but under this God they worshipped many inferior and subservient gods. — Benjamin Stillingfleet

A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the "buffone", or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play. — Ambrose Bierce

When life is going according to plan, we don't stop to question our daily habits ... Maybe it's time to sift through our lives. — Shirley Corder

I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning — Plato

This is because the Greeks had it backward, and no matter how hard humans try thinking otherwise, they still think like Greeks. For the Greeks, when you looked ahead all you saw was the past. It was like the past was the future. — Kathryn Davis

She took a deep breath. "Let me begin again." If this girl wanted to play ball in front of her department head, Christine would bring it. She closed her eyes and accessed the most expensive Philo Department vocabulary words she possessed.
"Well, as human beings, when we immanentize the eschaton ... — Red Tash

A dense undergrowth of extension cords sustains my upper world of lights, music, and machines of comfort. — Mason Cooley

Go to sleep then, safe in the financial fortress you built on a transgression and yet still it stands. — Liane Moriarty

Press on, then, in the exercise of introspection. It is important to know yourself really well. It will not help you a bit if you lie when it comes to yourself. In other words, don't lie to yourself about you. Know where you're weak. Know your thoughts. Know the places in your heart that you don't want to give to the Lord. You must build time into your life to become aware of what's really going on in your heart, in your mind, and deep inside of you. Constantly ask yourself good diagnostic questions about areas of doubt and disbelief. — Matt Chandler

There is nothing we cannot live down, rise above, and overcome. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

See yourself as a small child, fragile and vulnerable, and breathe in. Smile with love to this small child within yourself, and breathe out. — Barbara Ann Kipfer

I fear that in this thing many rich people deceive themselves. They go on accumulating the means but never using them; making bricks, but never building. — George Eliot

He was not only the last of the great Greek philosophers, he was Europe's first great biologist. — Jostein Gaarder

The word Universe is made up of two Latin words- uni (meaning "one") and versus (meaning "turned into"). It literally means "one turned into. — Chris Prentiss

He wants me, all of me - my baggage, my body, my heart, my soul - and I want everything that he is.
So, that's what we give to each other. — Renee Ericson

The thunder tiger looked at her like an avalanche looks at a butterfly. — Jay Kristoff