Philosophy Quotes

"He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak."

"I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don't want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life."

"I'm not Brad Pitt or George Clooney. Those guys walk into a room and the room changes. I think there's something more... not average, but everyman about me."

"Bond is part of the system. He's an imperialist and a misogynist, and he laughs at killing people, and he sits there slugging martinis. It'll never be the same thing as this, because Bourne is a guy who is against the establishment, who is paranoid and on the run. I just think fundamentally they're just very different things."

"It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants."

"It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races."

"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."

"There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk of you."

"Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts."

"There is nothing like desire for preventing the thing one says from bearing any resemblance to what one has in one's mind."

"It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, that we make our irrevocable decisions."

"I think scent is sensual. I guess evoking a mood or a spirit is key, and I think with the women's fragrances we have evoked different types, moods or sensibilities of a woman - whether it's Daisy with the sweetness and the innocence or Lola which is more provocative, sexy and sultry."

"In my mind there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.… I am neither of a melancholy, nor a cynical disposition, and am as willing and as apt to be pleased as anybody; but I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has ever heard me laugh."

"Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? It doth; but actions are our epochs."

"Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves."

"But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think."

"“Contrariwise,” continued Tweedledee, “if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.”"

"That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day."

"Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner."

"And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people."