Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ludwig von Mises

The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped. What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.

Charles Peguy

A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.

Charles Peguy

A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach; it is philosophy without fear.

Denis Diderot

Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.

Denis Diderot

The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.

Denis Diderot

What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.

Denis Diderot

Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.

Denis Diderot

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

Dean Wareham

They didn't teach Nietzsche in the philosophy department at Harvard; philosophy there was strictly analytical stuff and the poetic ramblings of Nietzsche did not belong. And see - you are teaching it in a literature class - so they must have been right.

Malorie Blackman

Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.

Pete Cohen

Make exercise a reward, rather than a punishment. Think about how you feel at the end of a run and use that to motivate yourself.

Thomas Cummings

Make exercise a regular part of your life, something that you don't discontinue because of weather.

John Leddy

Make sure you exercise more than once a week. Make sure you're active, even when you're not playing basketball.

Mark Knowles

Medications in this case, this one, which does seem to be one of the better ones, so far, still will need exercise and a good diet.

Erin Olson

One was for them and one was for a caregiver or parent who could work with the student on the project. It's to get them learning that walking is exercise and get them up and going.

Ludwig von Mises

Some think that they will exercise power for the general good, but that is what all those with power have believed. Power is evil in itself, regardless of who exercises it.

Ludwig von Mises

A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!

Dick Van Dyke

In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living.

Ambrose Bierce

HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally abandoned for the tornado and cyclone. The hurricane is still in popular use in the West Indies and is preferred by certain old- fashioned sea-captains.

Albert Bushnell Hart

England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.

Bill Cowher

Yeah, I know he discovered the West Indies; it wasn't America. But the whole thing with Columbus was that people had been telling him, 'Don't go. The world's flat.' But he kept going. He found land.

Ezra Stiles

The British merchants represented that they received some profit indeed from Virginia and South Carolina, as well as the West Indies; but as for the rest of this continent, they were constant losers in trade.

Jamaica Kincaid

Had the Holocaust happened in Tahiti or the Congo, as it has; had it happened in South America, as it has; had it happened in the West Indies, as it has - you must remember that within fifty years of Columbus's arrival, only the bones remained of the people called the Arawaks, with one or two of them in Spain as specimens. Had the Holocaust committed under the Nazis happened somewhere else, we wouldn't be talking about it the way we talk about it.