Philosophy Quotes

"I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts."

"His tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason."

"The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven."

"Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days."

"As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye."

"The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have."

"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common."

"Philosophy will clip an angel's wings."

"The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts."

"Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable."

"If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick."

"I think faith is incredibly important because you will become overwhelmed with what's happening and you will have waves of grief, but when you turn to your faith, I believe God will give you waves of grace to get through it."

"Don't keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason."

"L.A., it's nice, but I think of sunshine and people on rollerblades eating sushi. New York, I think of nighttime, I think of Times Square and Broadway and nightlife and the city that never sleeps."

"I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments."

"Whoever controls the media, controls the mind."

"People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation."

"I think my siblings sometimes have to defend me within their social circles - they are both barristers."

"I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked."

"I will tell you what I can't abide - and I think the Internet has really created a space for it - women criticizing other women and mothers criticizing other mothers."