Famous Quotes & Sayings

William S. Burroughs

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

William Mapother

I went to Notre Dame. I don't know if that has any relevance, but maybe we all had a little too much philosophy and theology.

William Kristol

Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought.

Woody Guthrie

Take it easy, but take it.

Saint Augustine

No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

Saint Augustine

To seek the highest good is to live well.

Saint Augustine

If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.

Saint Augustine

Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.

Saint Augustine

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

Saint Augustine

We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone

Saint Augustine

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Saint Augustine

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Saint Augustine

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

Saint Augustine

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

Saint Augustine

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

Saint Augustine

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

Saint Augustine

We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.

Saint Augustine

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

W. E. B. Du Bois

One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over. We must not remember that Daniel Webster got drunk but only that he was a splendid constitutional lawyer. We must forget that George Washington was a slave owner . . . and simply remember the things we regard as creditable and inspiring. The difficulty, of course, with this philosophy is that history loses its value as an incentive and example; it paints perfect man and noble nations, but it does not tell the truth.

W. C. Fields

Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed.

W. C. Fields

All things considered, I'd rather be in Philadelphia

Zack Snyder

For whatever reason I was always obsessed with the potential of humanity's physicality. Especially since we grew up with such a non-physical philosophy.

Zack Snyder

You can't will something into being. If you follow that philosophy all the way, to will something into being, that's animal style. That's what man does. But if you're looking at the philosophy correctly, and I never did - I like to think I did sometimes - you have to do it without ego, without the I. You have to separate yourself.

Zane Grey

A good rule of angling philosophy is not to interfere with any fishermans ways of being happy, unless you want to be hated.

Ziggy Marley

I make music that I know that people will enjoy, and balance the ideas and philosophy that we put in music with music that when we play it live, people can move to it and groove to it.

Ziggy Marley

Reggae has a philosophy, you know? It's not just entertainment. There's an idea behind it, a way of life behind the music, which is a positive way of life, which is a progressive way of life for better people.

Zhuangzi

The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?

William Hazlitt

It is easier taking the beaten path than making our way over bogs and precipices. The great difficulty in philosophy is to come to every question with a mind fresh and unshackled by former theories, though strengthened by exercise and information.

Wendell Willkie

I am not interested in the support of anybody who stands for any form of prejudice as to anybody's race or religion. . . . I have no place in my philosophy for such beliefs.

Walter Pater

Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.

Walter Pater

The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.

W. Somerset Maugham

It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.

Warren Buffett

Investment philosophy is the clear understanding that by owning shares of stocks he owns businesses, not pieces of paper.