Phlilosophy Quotes & Sayings

Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're real quite lucky. — Dr. Seuss

Trying to extricate from the long day the grain of pleasure — Graham Greene

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk. — John C. Maxwell

I think I'm just trying to be myself and write songs that are honest. That's what I hear in artist's that I like. — Michael Gungor

Nothingness
... there in this place
where nothingness takes
but for the glimmer
a steadfast shimmer
all would be consumed ... — Muse

Be more wary of the fearful than of the brave. — Meeta Ahluwalia

To have some deep feeling about Buddhism is not the point; we just do what we should do, like eating supper and going to bed. This is Buddhism. — Shunryu Suzuki

My ability to persuade my wife to marry me [was] quite my most brilliant achievement ... Of course, it would have been impossible for any ordinary man to have got through what I had to go through in peace and war without the devoted aid of what we call, in England, one's better half. — Winston Churchill

I kind of figured if I couldn't get a job as a dwarf, looking as I do, I should just give up acting. — Stephen Hunter

The world has placed chemical, biological and nuclear weapons in a separate category because their use constitutes a crime against all humanity. — Charles B. Rangel

...[T]here is no art in being intelligible if one renounces all thoroughness of insight; but also it produces a disgusting medley of compiled observations and half-reasoned principles. Shallow pates enjoy this because it can be used for everyday chat, but the sagacious find in it only confusion, and being unsatisfied and unable to help themselves, they turn away their eyes, while philosophers, who see quite well through this delusion, are little listened to when they call men off for a time from this pretended popularity in order that they might be rightfully popular after they have attained a definite insight. — Immanuel Kant

So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you're dealt? — George W. Bush