Philsophy Quotes & Sayings

The years in captivity fuels character development — Lailah Gifty Akita

Every American wants a clean slate, but nobody wants to lose what they've got. — Rob Sheffield

It is not impossible to live in love, with love, for love and then become love. — Debasish Mridha

One would think that since Hamilton and Eliza only just got married, our mothers would be satisfied for a while, but instead they seem to have come to the conclusion that everyone needs to enter into the state of wedded bliss. Quite frankly, they've turned scary. — Jen Turano

Having started and owned two small businesses, I know what a challenge it is to keep up with the rising costs of your employees' healthcare premiums. — Chellie Pingree

The Soul is a house ... Let it burn! — Tim Seibles

A person dies every second, but there's also a six year old somewhere, every second, trying to move an apple with his mind. — Craig Stone

A man who does not question his own judgment, society, and who flourishes between deceit and bewilderment, fails his moral responsibility as a rational being. — Duop Chak Wuol

If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done so exactly as English children come to think that a cage is the natural sphere of a parrot: because they have never seen one anywhere else. — George Bernard Shaw

My soul is chaos, how can it be at all? There is everything in me: search and you will find out. I am a fossil dating from the beginning of the world: not all of its elements have completely crystallized, and initial chaos still shows through. I am absolute contradiction, climax of antinomies, the last limit of tension; in me anything is possible, for I am he who at the supreme moment, in front of absolute nothingness, will laugh. — Emil Cioran

A Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe. — Peter Cave

Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure to keep up a large acquaintance with the organs of opinion, remain much more ignorant of the general state either of the public mind, or of the active and instructed part of it, than a recluse who reads the newspapers need be. — John Stuart Mill

It quickly becomes clear that having a child in France doesn't require choosing a parenting philsophy. — Pamela Druckerman

The study of truth requires a considerable effort - which is why few are willing to undertake it out of love of knowledge - despite the fact that God has implanted a natural appetite for such knowledge in the minds of men. — Thomas Aquinas

My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress. — Zaha Hadid

Sometimes life asks us to make more serious choices than whether or not to believe a fairy tale — Chrystal Vaughan

Therein resides the fundamental systemic violence of capitalism, much more uncanny than direct pre-capitalist socio-ideological violence: its violence is no longer attributable to concrete individuals with their 'evil' intentions, but is purely 'objective,' systemic, anonymous
quite literally a conceptual violence, the violence of a Concept whose self-deployment rules and regulates social realty. — Slavoj Zizek

Love the world as the mother loves her little child. — Debasish Mridha

Six decades ago, as Mao's Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, 'Who lost China?' Now, as his capitalist descendants stand astride the world stage and Washington worries about decline, it seems to be, 'Who lost America?' — Eric Liu

A narcissist with power will attempt to prove in the world only what is already in his head. He can't 'see' otherwise. For him, the 'outside world' is not beyond him and does not question or challenge him and his ideas. He is the world. Others will assent to his distorted worldview, because he is powerful, not because he is believable. If he possesses any reflection, that will be exactly what will gnaw at the narcissist with power most of all: his 'truths' are inauthentic, and he is a human being without integrity. The very narcissism and power he possesses prevent him from an ongoing relationship with the truth, which begins with self-humility and the curiosity this can create in a person. — Sergio Troncoso

Which is better off, a lizard basking in the sun or a philosopher? — Ursula K. Le Guin

I think nothing is good, I really think it is. — Duop Chak Wuol

The more you know, the more you yearn for knowledge. — Debasish Mridha

A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him. — Frederick Douglass

We think in language. The quality of our thoughts and ideas can only be as good as the quality of our language. — George Carlin

I do think women can have it all - but not all women. If you take daring steps and are smart about it, you can probably have it all. But you might have to wait a while. — Gail Sheehy

For it is precisely because certain groups have no representation in a number of recognized political structures that their position tends to be so stable, their oppression so continuous. — Kate Millett