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.

Richard Rogers

I love cities, I spend most of my life talking about cities. And the design of cities does have an effect on your life. You're lucky if you can see trees out of your window and you have a square nearby, or a bar, a cornershop, a surgery. Then you're living well.

Albert Schweitzer

The city of truth cannot be built on the swampy ground of skepticism.

Liu Xiaoming

Major cities around the world have spent more than a decade or two trying to solve this problem. Some big cities still face this problem.

Stephanie Stilson

Let's look at these 99 other places (honored) and see what kind of education they provide. What do cities that really excel in education do?

Rudi Giuliani

Let's now make this kind of a permanent condition for New York City, that New York City is one of the safest large cities in America, and let's keep it that way,

Thomas Heywood

Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead,/ Who, living, had no roof to shroud his head.

Chris Paulitz

Sen. Hutchison is very impressed with the progress the cities are making, but it is too early in the process to discuss an endgame.

Joseph Rykwert

Mixed use is what cities are all about. If you don't have mixed use, you don't have cities.

John Mulvihill

One of our goals was to talk to all the cities and see if we could convince everybody to do kind of a regional facility.

Stephen Moyer

One of the things that I've been trying to do with my characters, one of the things that does lead to me turning things down, is I don't really want to repeat myself.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster

I'm not a 'guitarist.' I'm trying to be a bassist.

Taron Egerton

I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.

Dick Wolf

The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits.

Dick Van Dyke

When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it in those days?' I try to be as gracious to him as Stan Laurel was to me.

Diane Lane

I try not to be overly analytical.

Dennis Farina

I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words.

Denis Johnson

What could be lonelier than trying to communicate?

Deborah Roberts

There is no sin in delegating. The sin is trying to do it all.