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.

Blaise Pascal

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

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.

Alfred Korzybski

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

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.

Chris Ullman

We are Uzhbi, a consortium of pygmy philosophers.

Cornel West

A philosopher's a lover of wisdom.

Terry Pratchett

I could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all about.

Charles Dickens

Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

John Pearson

Secondly, reflect upon that love and entire affection which you have lost; and could no otherwise be lost, but by losing him, in whom it lived.

George Romero

So many execs don't get or understand the horror genre, they're used to being involved with story or plot, and when they're in a genre that they don't get or have affection for, it gets difficult.

Josh Billings

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.

H. Hunt

One of the animals which a generous and sociable man would soonest become is a dog. A dog can have a friend; he has affections and character, he can equally enjoy the field and the fireside; he dreams, he caresses, he propitiates; he offends, and is pardoned; he stands by you in adversity; he is a good fellow.

Kevin Evans

More consumers have more discretionary income. This is an occasion that brings out the inner child in us all. And Canadian consumers have shown a real affection for Halloween.

Henry Montherlant

Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end

Craig Dollase

I wish the Sunshine Millions was here. He really has an affinity for this course.

Rene Auberjonois

I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father and he played a kid who was suing his father for alienation of affection or something. It was great.