Philosophical Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Think I'll flip a coin, I'm a winner either way Mmmmmm, I feel lucky today

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Thinking, Today, Way

  Song: I Feel Lucky, 1992

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• The Antichrist, Section 7

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Antichrist, Sections

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo”, p.335, Vintage

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• Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Ambition, Power, Desire

  "The Essential Spinoza: Ethics and Related Writings".

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• The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophy, Men, Brave

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Peace, War, Character

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• We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.

  Martin Heidegger

  "On Time and Being".

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• You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wish, Live For Yourself, Ifs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Law, Spirit, Moderation

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• Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Nature, Littles, Goodness

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1945). “Hegel's Philosophy of right”

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• Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

  Seneca the Younger

  Death, Anger, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Writing, Ifs

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1962). “Cicero: Letters to Atticus”

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• No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

  Seneca the Younger

  Adversity

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It seems that laughter needs an echo.

  Henri Bergson

  Happiness, Laughter, Echoes

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• Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Mistake, Looks, Logic

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2016). “Tractatus Logico Philosophicus”, p.21, Clube de Autores

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• Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

  Seneca the Younger

  Mindfulness, Today, Anticipation

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• He who does not prevent a crime, when he can, encourages it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Encouragement, Doe, Crime

  "The Trojan Women". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1st century AD.

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