Philosophical Quotes - Page 18

• It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity

  Lewis Carroll

  Mistake, Genius, Path

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• We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.

  Jean Toomer

  Philosophy, Existence, Humans

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• To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

  George Berkeley

  Fall, Tree, Sound

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• The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Fall, Wings, Owl

  Philosophy of Right (1821)

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• 'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed

  William Shakespeare

  William Shakespeare, Gwynne Blakemore Evans, Anthony Hecht (1996). “The Sonnets”, p.93, Cambridge University Press

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• A king of infinite space

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Space, Infinite

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [263]

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• Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile

  William Shakespeare

  Light, Seeking

  William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.154

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• Sweet are the uses of adversity

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Sports, Sweet

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 12

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• The man that hath no music in himself

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Men, Venice

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 79

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• The patient must minister to himself

  William Shakespeare

  Patient, Ministers, Antidote

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 3, l. 37

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• There is a tide in the affairs of men

  William Shakespeare

  Opportunity, Men, Sailing And The Sea

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 215

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• There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently

  William Shakespeare

  Dental Work, Endurance, Philosopher

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 5, sc. 1, l. 35

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• What a piece of work is a man

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Pieces

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [316]

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• I think the book you always like best is the one you're about to write.

  Margaret Atwood

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Margaret Atwood (2006). “Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood”

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• Simplify, simplify, simplify.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Wise, Philosophy

  Henry David Thoreau (1937). “The selected works of Thoreau”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same

  Paul Simon

  Strange

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• It has been said that to write is to live forever. The man who said that is dead.

  Tina Fey

  Writing, Men, Forever

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• Why'd you have to say that there's always someone who can do it better than I can And don't you think that I know that walkin' on water won't make me a miracle man

  Elvis Costello

  Men, Thinking, Water

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• Like any dealer he was watching for the card
  that is so high and wild
  he'll never need to deal another.
  He was just some Joseph looking for a manger.

  Leonard Cohen

  Needs, Cards, Deals

  "Song: 'The Stranger Song'". 1967.

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• You swore you'd never compromise With the mystery tramp, but now you realise He's not selling any alibis As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes And say, do you want to make a deal How does it feel

  Bob Dylan

  Eye, Want, Vacuums

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• Their lives ran in circles so small They thought they'd seen it all

  Michelle Shocked

  Circles, Ran

  Song: Memories of East Texas

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• Of course, if you photograph the behavior of women and men at a particular time in history, in a particular situation, you will capture differences. But the error lies in inferring that a snapshot is a lasting picture. What women and men do at a moment in time tells us nothing about what women and men are in some unvarying sense - or about what they can be.

  Carol Tavris

  Lying, Men, Differences

  Carol Tavris (1993). “Mismeasure of Woman: Why Women are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex”, Touchstone

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• In the next few galactic seconds, the fate of the universe will be decided. Life - the ultimate experiment - will either explode into space, and engulf the star-clouds in a fire storm of children, trees, and butterfly wings; or Life will fail, fizzle, and gutter out, leaving the universe shrouded forever in impenetrable blankness, devoid of hope.

  Marshall Savage

  Stars, Children, Butterfly

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• But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd joy!

  Robert Burns

  Art, Pain, Grief

  Robert Burns (2009). “The Best Laid Schemes: Selected Poetry and Prose of Robert Burns”, p.48, Princeton University Press

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• Within weeks of our premiere, it became obvious that Leonard [Nimoy] and the character of Spock were becoming something of a national phenomenon. ... And to be unflatteringly frank, it bugged me. ... [Then, Gene Roddenberry] said to me the wisest thing he could possibly have uttered. He said, `Don't ever fear having good and popular people around you, because they can only enhance your own performance. The more you can play to these people, the better the show.'

  William Shatner

  Character, Play, People

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