Thales Philosophy Quotes & Sayings

From the beginning philosophy sought for The order behind the disorder Thales sipped cheap wine And in this did divine: Why it's nothing at all but pure water! — Rebecca Goldstein

Now, I don't want to come over all cynical, but doesn't that imply that you could dispense with the entire democratic process and simply award power to the party with the most money in its campaign fund? Yes. It does. Maybe not always, just every, single time in history so far. — Russell Brand

If there is a change, there must be some thing that changes, yet does not change — Thales

I am afraid. Not of live, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if it had never been. — Daniel Keyes

I've never ditched. I don't understand how he can just shrug everything off. — Stephanie Perkins

Anticlimax is, of course, the warp and way of things. Real life seldom structures a decent denouement. — Anonymous

Rebecca stared back at him, still dazed. She'd forgotten how to speak; it seemed an unimportant skill, anyhow, when such kisses were to be had, when a whole world could be made from a kiss. — Julie Anne Long

I have a very positive attitude in life. My insecurity, fear and need to know about tomorrow has fortunately eased. What is going to happen will happen anyway. So why break my head over it? — Katrina Kaif

I judge property myself by its net earning power; that is the only rule I have been able to get ... This whole island [Manhattan] was once bought for a few strings of beads. But now you will find this property valued by its earning power, by its rent power, and that is the way to value a railroad or telegraph. — Jay Gould

You've got to keep the stage world and your real world separated or you're headed for trouble. — George Strait

We don't have a desperate need to grow. We have a desperate desire to grow. — Milton Friedman

To be entranced, to be driven, to be obsessed, to be under the spell of an emerging, not quite fully 'comprehended' narrative
this is the greatest happiness of the writer's life even as it burns us out and exhausts us, unfitting us for the placid contours of 'normality. — Joyce Carol Oates

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me. I mean, there are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage monster'; instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do. If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees. But then you take a look at what the corporation does, the effect of its legal structure, the vast inequalities in pay and conditions, and you see the reality is something far different. — Noam Chomsky

Sometimes you have to take a risk because the reward is worth it. — Priscilla West

They may also ask that you bring certain types of food, alcohol, or tobacco on a regular basis. It must be noted that although djinn in their natural state might be composed of plasma, most of them can take a physical shape for short periods of time. This means that a djinni is able to take in nourishment by absorbing energy or consuming food. It's thought that many djinn enjoy the "taste" of a variety of our everyday foods, especially ice cream and fruits. Human foods only partially provide subsistence, however: djinn must get most of their nourishment by absorbing various types of energy from living things. — Rosemary Ellen Guiley

My references, my musical tastes, everything that I like, in fact, comes from the '70s. — Clemence Poesy

So, I heard you're this ninja or something. — Stephen Chbosky