Pkilosophy Quotes & Sayings

The pace at which science has progressed has been too fast for human behaviour to adapt to it. As I said we are still apes. A part of our brain is still a paleo-brain and many of the reactions come from our fight or flight instinct. As long as this part of the brain can take over control the rational part of the brain (we will face these problems). — Jean-Marie Lehn

I am a big fan of long drop, composting toilets - I like the cycle of using waste. When you have experienced one and seen what comes out of the bottom, it is amazing stuff. It's the most beautiful, driest, sweet-smelling compost. — Kevin McCloud

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience. — Archibald MacLeish

I always believe that to be the best, you have to smell like the best, dress like the best, act like the best. When you throw your trash in the garbage can, it has to be better than anybody else who ever threw trash in the garbage can. — Lil' Wayne

Working with the children on 'Matilda' has been a joy. They don't do this professionally - their sense of discovery is instinctive, and the challenge for us adults is to keep that going in ourselves when we're doing it for the fiftieth or the hundredth time. To my delight and amazement, it hasn't gone stale - we discover it freshly every time. — Bertie Carvel

The gull sees farthest who flies highest — Richard Bach

I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was careless because there'd be some cache now in being a northern playwright, but I missed out on that one. — Laura Wade

If you're ready," I say, wiping my eyes while he blows his nose, "we should head to the funeral home. Do you think they allow dogs in there? — Shaun David Hutchinson

If you diversify, control your risk, and go with the trend, it just has to work. — Larry Hite

As the "people of the centre" in every
sense of the term, the Germans are more intangible, more ample, more contradictory, more unknown, more incalculable, more surprising, and even more terrifying than other peoples are to themselves:
they escape DEFINITION, and are thereby alone the despair of the French. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Uncommon anxiety came to us in common hours when other people were doing mundane things like taking out the trash or checking their phones. But there was nothing to be done for this. We couldn't change who we were or what had happened. — Laura Anderson Kurk

My whole life, people have told me that I have a staring problem. They're hilariously mistaken: I'm very good at staring. — S. Hart

Men from children nothing differ. — William Shakespeare