Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

Blaise Pascal

Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves.

Alfred Korzybski

It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill.

Cornel West

A philosopher's a lover of wisdom.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

Allan Bloom

The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.

Chris Ullman

We are Uzhbi, a consortium of pygmy philosophers.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.

Gene Robinson

The truly longstanding tradition in the church is that some are called to celibacy. Some feel called to it. But the church has never supported that celibacy be mandated for someone not called to it. It's never imposed on someone.

Rivers Cuomo

I decided to try celibacy because I heard it would help the meditation, and I tried meditation because I heard it would help with the music. So, it all really comes back to the music.

Mahatma Gandhi

I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.

Beatrice Wood

Celibacy is exhausting.

George Bernard Shaw

Vice is waste of life. Poverty, obedience and celibacy are the canonical vices.

Tim Roth

I try and take the family with me everywhere I can. It's getting harder the more kids I have. But celibacy sucks.

M. Wolfe

States can do as little or as much as they want.

Steve Lyle

Other states have called us, and are taking a look at it.

Kate Saunders

It is not unprecedented that the two will be in the United States at the same time.

Donna Brazile

I'm not about waiting anymore. All the states, especially the states that have been ignored, all the constituencies and communities that have been ignored, have a part in this process.

Shyam Saran

This was not something that the United States wanted,

Alan Dershowitz

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.

Elizabeth Bowen

writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.

Sammy Sosa

I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.

Barack Obama

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.