The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.
George W. BushA lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.
Steve JobsI like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
Jane GoodallFor every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
Hunter S. ThompsonNo; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?
Bertrand RussellI was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.
Nipsey HussleHe who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Friedrich NietzscheHabit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
Blaise PascalOne of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds.
Frank ZappaEurope was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
Margaret ThatcherWhenever a fellow tells me he’s bipartisan, I know he’s going to vote against me.
Harry S. TrumanWe are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar WildeIf you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Abraham MaslowNo school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.
Christopher HitchensFame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live.
Marilyn MonroeSin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
Baruch SpinozaThe frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
George Bernard ShawOut of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
Immanuel KantIt is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‚try to be a little kinder.‘
Aldous HuxleyWe account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
Isaac NewtonI really don’t pay attention to the outside world when I’m incarcerated, because being in prison is like being in a different world. So I don’t pay attention to what’s going on outside of jail, because it’s all beyond my control.
Kevin GatesI am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.
Thomas JeffersonThen not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
PlatoIf it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
George CarlinArt, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Gilbert K. ChestertonConsider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaIf we don’t know life, how can we know death?
ConfuciusAdvice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe whole is more than the sum of its parts.
AristotleThe greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
Alexander PopeEvil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.
Jean-Paul SartreA process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.
Bertrand RussellReligion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.
Mahatma Gandhi‚Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.
Henry David ThoreauI don’t spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I’ve – if it did occur – that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it.
Edmund HillaryNon-violence is the article of faith.
Mahatma GandhiEach day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Arthur SchopenhauerBeauty is a short-lived tyranny.
George Bernard ShawI want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
Kurt VonnegutSome scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.
Frank ZappaEvery tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.
Elbert HubbardWhoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Albert EinsteinThe good is the beautiful.
PlatoIt is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
PlatoJustice… is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
EpicurusWere it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
Samuel JohnsonA thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar WildeFiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Ralph Waldo EmersonDo you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?
Jack LondonThe abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
Friedrich NietzscheMen create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
AristotleBeauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
Albert CamusYou’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
Golda MeirMy philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.
Richard BransonEvery person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur SchopenhauerBefore the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.
Friedrich NietzscheMy father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘
LeBron JamesReligion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
Karl MarxYou forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.
Jean-Jacques RousseauWe do not know what is really good or bad fortune.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau