Philosophy Quotes

"The pen is the tongue of the mind."

"Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind."

"I think that humans have a huge capacity to carry pain and sadness. There are things that haunt us our entire lives; we are unable to let them go. The good times seem almost effervescent and dreamlike in comparison with the times that didn't go so well."

"Pizza makes me think that anything is possible."

"I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement."

"I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're desperate and scared you scapegoat people. It exacerbates latent tendencies toward - well, toward racism or homophobia or anti-Semitism."

"It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them."

"It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise."

"Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems."

"The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault."

"Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you."

"I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them."

"The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept."

"People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think."

"The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her."

"What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering."

"As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death."

"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations."

"There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind."

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."