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.

Bob Curran

Last year, we had 3,000 wells drilled but fewer than 20 complaints. These complaints are for all types of issues, including water, noise and surface impacts.

Jim Roberts

So far, we've not received any complaints from tenants that they are losing parking spots.

Mark Turgeon

No complaints. We had the first game on our home court. This is probably how it should be.

Tommy Tuberville

No complaints on our part. We'll go down there and play, and it will make no difference on who wins and loses.

Chris Spillane

No complaints, no regrets. The better team won tonight. They are an outstanding hockey team. We have no reason to hang our heads.

Jean Arnault

One of the very, very widespread complaints about reconstruction process today is where is the money going. There is a sense out there that resources are not fairly allocated.

Patricia McGinnis

More and more complaints are not investigated at all, or not on a timely basis.

James Neal

For years I have been complaining about this very thing. You have the power to reform and that's what we need, from A-to-Z - reform.

Sam Rainsy

The only option left is to continue our struggle in the National Assembly. We will push for our complaints to be dealt with, addressed properly,

Bruce Katz

Many of us are somewhat bewildered by this because we know how to relocate people fairly rapidly to decent housing.

Bruce Katz

Many of us are somewhat bewildered by this, because we know how to relocate people fairly rapidly to decent housing.

Daniel Boone

I can't say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.

William Williams

O Marvelous! what new configuration will come next? I am bewildered with multiplicity.

Lynn Coady

You don't need to have Asperger's to feel bewildered in a culture that relies so heavily on inconsequential chit-chat to grease the wheels of day-to-day life.

Bhagavad Gita

Knowing these two paths, O Arjuna, a yogi is not bewildered at all. Therefore, O Arjuna, be steadfast in yoga (of meditation) at all times.

Pat Roberts

I think he was confused and somewhat bewildered at first, somewhat shocked at his circumstances,

Bruce Katz

To be frank, I'm bewildered by what has gone on here. There doesn't seem to be a plan that was really thought out in any significant way.

Roland Barthes

What the Journal posits is not the tragic question, the Madman's question: "Who am I?", but the comic question, the Bewildered Man's question: "Am I?" A comic --a comedian, that's what the Journal keeper is.