Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.
No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.
One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.
Who is also aware of the tremendous risk involved in faith - when he nevertheless makes the leap of faith - this [is] subjectivity ... at its height.
Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.
Very often design is the most immediate way of defining what products become in people's minds.
That's an interesting thing about an object. One object speaks volumes about the company that produced it and its values and priorities.
You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential.
Apple's Jony Ive describes his "fanatical" approach to design in new interview
I figured out some basic stuff: that form and colour defines your perception of the nature of an object, whether or not it is intended to.
Our goal is to try to bring a calm and simplicity to what are incredibly complex problems so that you're not aware really of the solution.
It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
Everyone has an enemy. It's why God gave us baseball bats. Well, He gave us trees, but we knew what He meant.
Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.
The memory of how we work will endure beyond the products of our work.
I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us.
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