The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
You cannot step twice into the same river.
We don't do focus groups - that is the job of the designer. It's unfair to ask people who don't have a sense of the opportunities of tomorrow from the context of today to design.
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.
The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
I am only a philosopher, and there is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers.
If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.
The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.
Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!
When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.
There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
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