Famous Quotes & Sayings

Madonna Ciccone

I ran to the forest, I ran to the trees. I ran and I ran, I was looking for me.

Madonna Ciccone

Cosmic systems intertwine, astral bodies drip like wine, all of nature ebbs and flows. Comets shoot across the sky, can't explain the reasons why, this is how creation goes.

Louis Kronenberger

From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the hands of barbarians. But unless the humanist tradition itself in some form survives, there can really be no civilization at all.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.

Lorrie Moore

Basically, I realized I was living in that awful stage of life between twenty-six to and thirty-seven known as stupidity. It's when you don't know anything, not even as much as you did when you were younger, and you don't even have a philosophy about all the things you don't know, the way you did when you were twenty or would again when you were thirty-eight.

Michael Crichton

Nobody dares to solve the problems-because the solution might contradict your philosophy, and for most people clinging to beliefs is more important than succeeding in the world.

Michael Crichton

The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature--all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn't care about beliefs or philosophy. Whenever any animal's behavior puts it out of touch with the realities of its existence, it becomes exinct.

Mark Twain

It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.

Mary Ritter Beard

Unless one's philosophy is all-inclusive, nothing can be understood.

Mary Ritter Beard

Every great creative idea, formulated as a philosophy, has a social setting - in time, in a geographical location, in a political economy, in a matrix of interests and knowledge. It is not a free-swinging phenomenon like a balloon without moorings. It is not produced in a vacuum and, being creative, it does not work in a vacuum. Nurtured on things experienced and things known, it reaches out toward the unknown like a flower on a stalk growing out of the soil.

Mary Ritter Beard

The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!

Black is the absence of all color. White is the presence of all colors. I suppose life must be one or the other. On the whole, though, I think I would prefer color to its absence. But then black does add depth and texture to color. Perhaps certain shades of gray are necessary to a complete palette. Even unrelieved black. Ah, a deep philosophical question. Is black necessary to life, even a happy life? Could we ever be happy if we did not at least occasionally experience misery?

Martin Heidegger

True time is four-dimensional.

Martin Heidegger

The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.

Martin Heidegger

he who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors

Martin Heidegger

Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true of philosophy, but of all merely human thought and endeavor.

Martin Heidegger

We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.

Martin Heidegger

The possible ranks higher than the actual.

Martin Heidegger

Nevertheless, the ultimate business of philosophy is to preserve the force of the most elemental words in which Dasein expresses itself, and to keep the common understanding from levelling them off to that unintelligibility which functions in turn as a source of pseudo-problems.

Martin Heidegger

What is peddled about nowadays as philosophy, especially that of N.S., but has nothing to do with the inner truth and greatness of that movement is nothing but fishing in that troubled sea of values and totalities.

Martin Heidegger

Transcendence constitutes selfhood.

Martin Heidegger

The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.

Martin Heidegger

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

Martin Heidegger

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

Marquis de Sade

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

Marquis de Sade

The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.

Marquis de Sade

Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.

Mark Messier

Coaching really is an individual philosophy.

Mark Messier

You always really have to remain consistent in your beliefs and philosophy.

Nick Offerman

I became very interested [in philosophy] after attending the U.N. Conference on sustainable development in Brazil.I'm very concerned about climate change and the world reaching a tipping point. And, I see other people who really just want to survive to make it to the next election, rather than making means of change.

Nick Offerman

We're cognizant, curious beings, capable of philosophical thought, nuclear physics, repeating Nerf weapons, global consciousness, Glade air fresheners, and sentient automobiles. But we're assholes first.

Marvin Bower

Basic philosophy, spirit and drive of an organization have far more to do with its relative achievements than do technological or economic resources, organizational structure, innovation and timing.