Philsopher Quotes & Sayings

I have tried to teach my children to love nature as my parents taught that reverence to me
through example, proximity, and plenty of field guides and age-appropriate biology books. — Barbara Kingsolver

Suddenly normal wasn't good enough. — Steven Kotler

It's easy to fall in love, Ben. The hard part comes when you want out. — Colleen Hoover

If we really want to live, we'd better start at once to try. — W. H. Auden

I'll not forget that day nor the message of the Christian church that we celebrate each death as an Easter, each dying as a living, each soul, no matter how poor or sinful, as the child of royalty. At its best, the church treats people as beings of eternal worth, no less at their dying than at their birth, no less in their sins than in their virtue, no less for one than for another. — Carl Scovel

I totally consider Fishbowl my full time job - I have to say I freaking love doing this blog. I just enjoy the medium so much; I love the fact that it requires me to read amazing stuff by hilarious and talented people and forces me to know what's going on in the world. — Rachel Sklar

A lot of people love Oreos. So their manufacturer is making money. That means more dividends for shareholders. — Maria Bartiromo

I tried to blink back the tears that just kept coming. Eventually, I gave up and let my sight be obscured. — Embee

I'm the smartest celebrity you've ever dealt with. I'm not Britney Spears. — Kanye West

So hard to die.' I don't doubt that it is, but it cannot be much harder than being left behind. — John Green

Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free. — Emma Goldman

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards. — Diogenes Of Sinope

Fight if you wish. Deny what is before you if it comforts you. But nothing you do can change your fate. — Christopher Paolini

I think that's the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing. — Maria Semple

Not many years before the Happening, one of your country's largest religious bodies officially declared that their book was holier than their God, thus simultaneously and corporately breaking several commandments of their own religion, particularly the first one. Of course they liked the book better! It was full of magic and contradictions that they could quote to reinforce their bigoted and hateful opinions, as I well know, for I chose many parts of it from among the scrolls and epistles that were lying around in caves here and there. They're correct that a god picked out the material; they just have the wrong god doing it.
(The small god in Ch. 44) — Sheri S. Tepper

Confucius was not so much a philsopher as a proto-ideologist: what interested him was not metaphysical Truths but rather a harmonious social order within which individuals could lead happy and ethical lives. He was the first to outline clearly what one is tempted to call the elementary scene of ideology, its zero-level, which consists in asserting the (nameless) authority of some substantial Tradition. — Slavoj Zizek