Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jacqueline Carey

All knowledge is worth having

Jackson Browne

Lighten up while you still can, don't even try to understand. Just find a place to make your stand, and take it easy.

Christopher Isherwood

We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers.

Christopher Hitchens

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

Christopher Hitchens

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

George Harrison

Love, come and get it, it's free.

George Harrison

My life belongs to me, my love belongs to those who can see it.

George Harrison

The action that I've started, sometime I'll have to face. My influence in motion, rebounding back through space.

George Harrison

There's a bottomless heart hooked into all of you and it's wondering how much you care.

Gary Wright

My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy.

Gary Snyder

Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.

Gaston Bachelard

Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

Gaston Bachelard

The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed.

Gary Vaynerchuk

Know the philosophy, know the details, and ignore everything in the middle.

Gary Zukav

The development of physics in the twentieth century already has transformed the consciousness of those involved with it. The study (of modern physics) produces insights into the nature of reality very similar to those produced by the study of eastern philosophy.

Fulton J. Sheen

Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.

Fulton J. Sheen

There is a tendency among many shallow thinkers of our day to teach that every human act is a reflex, over which we do not exercise human control. They would rate a generous deed as no more praiseworthy than a wink, a crime as no more voluntary than a sneeze. . . Such a philosophy undercuts all human dignity. . . All of us have the power of choice in action at every moment of our lives.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

Friedrich Nietzsche

To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

Franz Grillparzer

The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.

Frank Zappa

Unbind your mind, there is no time.

Jim Capaldi

It's a sort of philosophy you cook up for yourself. You probably write things the same as everybody else, but it's your own personal way of saying things.

Jim Carrey

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create a good one for myself.

Jethro Tull

Everyone is from somewhere, even if you've never been there.

Jerry Weintraub

If asked my philosophy, it would be simply this: Savor life, don't press too hard, don't worry too much.

Jerzy Kosinski

Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.

Jeannette Rankin

The most disappointing feature of working for a cause is that so few people have a philosophy of life. We used to say, in the suffrage movement, that we could trust the woman who believed in suffrage, but we could never trust the woman who just wanted to vote.

Jeff Bridges

If you open your heart, then the object of your love becomes so precious because you are so open. And that philosophy, that caring, spreads.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Philosophy which does not help to illuminate the process of the liberation of the oppressed should be rejected.

Jean-Paul Sartre

It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.

Jean-Paul Sartre

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

Jean-Paul Sartre

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

Georges Bataille

It is through an "intimate cessation of all intellectual operations" that the mind is laid bare. If nor, discourse maintains it in its little complacency. ... The difference between inner experience and philosophy resides principally in this: that in experience, ... what counts is no longer the statement of wind, but the wind.