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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taughtAcademy, n.: A modern school where football is taught
~philosophical sayings by Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses: We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the Author.
~inspirational sayings about Experience. quotes by John Keats
If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?
~philosophical quotes by Stanislaw J. Lec
You can't fall off the floor.
~famous quotes about Philosophical by Author Unknown
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.
~philosophical sayings by Author Unknown
Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science.
~philosophical sayings by Henry David Thoreau
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
~inspirational sayings about Religion quotes by Francis Bacon, Essays: Of Atheism, 1625
If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one.
~philosophical quotes by Russian Proverb
I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of another boy.
~famous quotes about Philosophy by Woody Allen
Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to our selves. That we have first raised a dust, and then complain, we cannot see.
~philosophical sayings by George Berkeley
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.
~philosophical sayings by La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1678
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
~inspirational sayings about Censorship quotes by John F. Kennedy
A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure.
~philosophical quotes by Lee Segall
The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.
~famous quotes about Philosophical by Bertrand Russell
He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form.
~philosophical sayings by Marcus Aurelius
Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
~philosophical sayings by Adam Smith
Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway.
~good sayings about Love by Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975
Soul meets soul on lovers' lips
~philosophical quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.
~motivational quotes about Advertising sayings by John Fisher, The Plot to Make You Buy, 1968
The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.
~philosophical sayings by Don Drysdale, quoted in New York Times, 9 July 1979
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects.
~philosophical sayings by Herodotus, The History of Herodotus
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in
~good sayings about Earth Day by John Muir, 1913, in L.M. Wolfe, ed., John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
~philosophical quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith
America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.
~motivational quotes about America sayings by Max Lerner, Actions and Passions, 1949
I count myselt in nothing else so happy As in a soul rememb'ring my good friends
~philosophical sayings by William Shakespeare
If the television craze continues with the present level of programs, we are destined to have a nation of morons.
~philosophical sayings by Daniel Marsh
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
~good sayings about Education by G.M. Trevelyan
Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. It’s child’s reaction to and adult situation.
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When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day's sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze, blue jay's call, ice melting and so on. This helps me transcend the traffic, ignore the clamorings of work, leave all the mind theaters behind and focus on nature instead. I still must abide by the rules of the road, of biking, of gravity. But I am mentally far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart.
~motivational quotes about Bicycling sayings by Diane Ackerman
A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain
~philosophical sayings by Robert A. Heinlein
Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.
~philosophical sayings by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
They do not love that do not show their love
~good sayings about Love Quotes by John Heywood
In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.
~philosophical quotes by Albert Camus
When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.
~motivational quotes about Kindness sayings by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
~philosophical sayings by Abraham Lincoln
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