Famous Quotes & Sayings

Luc de Clapiers

The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness and the abandonment and neglect of themselves.

Luc de Clapiers

Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers.

Louis Pasteur

In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe.

Louis Pasteur

Posterity will one day laugh at the sublime foolishness of the modern materialistic philosophy. The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. I pray while I am engaged at my work in the laboratory.

John Churton Collins

Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers.

John Cheever

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

John Bolton

Maybe it's my libertarian philosophy: but being in government is hard.

John Bolton

My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all.

John Archibald Wheeler

I like to think that someone will trace how the deepest thinking of India made its way to Greece and from there to the philosophy of our times

Scott Adams

My philosophy is that every phone conversation has a loser.

Ray Davies

I close my eyes and feel the universe within me.

Ray Davies

Live life, see it through. Carry on, it's all you can do.

Ray Davies

Standing in the middle of nowhere, wondering how to begin. Lost between tomorrow and yesterday, between now and then.

Ray Davies

Surviving, that's my plan.

Ray Davies

Taken everything I've got, all I've got's this sunny afternoon.

Ray Davies

To the field we are scattered from the day we are born to grow wild and sleep rough til from the earth we are torn.

Ray Davies

A restless spirit who can't reach his goal, can't find a home until I've found my soul.

Ray Davies

It's never too late to get a new design, and if you wanna compete you gotta visualize.

Ray Davies

Goods gone bad, but right is wrong, and I don't know which side I'm on lately.

Ray Davies

Before you condemn me my friends, I suggest you look deep inside you. For good and evil exists in us all.

Ray Davies

Compared to the bugs and the spiders and flies, I am an apeman.

Ray Davies

Why bear malice? Just let it go. So what of pride? It will swallow you whole.

Ray Davies

What are we living for? Two roomed apartment on the second floor?

Ray Davies

On the surface I'm a mild mannered person, that's until you scratch the animal inside.

Ray Davies

You look like a human being, but you don't have a mind of your own.

Raoul Vaneigem

There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies.

Randy Travis

There's a darkness that everyone must face, it wants to take what's good and fair and lay it all to waste. And that darkness covers everything in sight, until it meets a single point of light.

Randy Travis

There's a constant contradiction between what feels good and what feels right. But you live with decisions that you make in your life.

Thomas Jefferson

I am myself an empiric in natural philosophy, suffering my faith to go no further than my facts. I am pleased, however, to see the efforts of hypothetical speculation, because by the collisions of different hypotheses, truth may be elicited and science advanced in the end.

Thomas Jefferson

The sun of her [Great Britain] glory is fast descending to the horizon. Her philosophy has crossed the Channel, her freedom the Atlantic, and herself seems passing to that awful dissolution, whose issue is not given human foresight to scan.

Thomas Jefferson

As you are entered with the class of Nat. philosophy, give to it the hours of lecture, but devote all your other time to Mathematics, avoiding company as the bane of all progress.

Thomas Jefferson

Political dissension is doubtless a less evil than the lethargy of despotism: but still it is a great evil, and it would be as worthy the efforts of the patriot as of the philosopher, to exclude its influence if possible, from social life. The good are rare enough at best. There is no reason to subdivide them by artificial lines. But whether we shall ever be able so far to perfect the principles of society as that political opinions shall, in its intercourse, be as inoffensive as those of philosophy, mechanics, or any other, may well be doubted.

Thomas Jefferson

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.