Varghese Somerset Quotes & Sayings

That philosophy died yesterday, since Hegel or Marx, Nietzsche, or Heidegger - and philosophy should still wander toward the meaning of its death - or that it has always lived knowing itself to be dying ... that philosophy died one day, within history, or that it has always fed on its own agony, on the violent way it opens history by opposing itself to nonphilosophy, which is its past and its concern, its death and wellspring; that beyond the death, or dying nature, of philosophy, perhaps even because of it, thought still has a future, or even, as is said today, is still entirely to come because of what philosophy has held in store; or, more strangely still, that the future itself has a future - all these are unanswerable questions. By right of birth, and for one time at least, these are problems put to philosophy as problems philosophy cannot resolve. — Jacques Derrida

Courage must come from the soul within; the man must furnish the will to win. So figure it out for yourself, my lad. You were born with all that the great have had. — Edgar Guest

Emptiness is the worlds greatest discovery — Sorin Cerin

What lovely things Thy hand hath made. — Walter De La Mare

We don't need to fight the forces of chaos so much as we need to restore and revitalize the forces of peace. — Marianne Williamson

I'm always impressed with the way the writers find new and creative ways of killing people. But my favourite has to be the hat pin through the ear. — John Nettles

a small town outside of Arizona, Sergei Zukov, a Russian drug czar, questioned a young woman tied to a chair in her own home, — Jackie Collins

World Health Organization predicts that by the year 2030, depression will be the planet's biggest health problem.3 — Ed Halliwell

The fact is, man has never stayed by a single ideal. The mass enthusiasm when you were young gave way to cool, rationalistic classicism. Today that's being drowned in turn by a kind of neoromanticism. God knows where that will lead. I probably won't approve. Regardless, new generations grow up. We've no right to freeze them into our own mold. The universe is too wide. — Poul Anderson

Fear, Katherine had once heard, acted as a stimulant sharpening the mind's ability to think. — Dan Brown

I changed my mind. Get out of my house now. I'll set your things on fire and mail you the ashes. — J. Sterling