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philosophy responsibility men
Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking. Ayn Rand
philosophy civilization trying
And again, we're kind of trying to be in that place, that's just so absurd and irreverent and hysterical and it's something that at our company we're kind of, we're so irreverent about everything, we're sort of irreverent about the establishment, we're irreverent about civilization, we're irreverent about philosophy, we're irreverent about religion. Brian Henson
philosophy acting triumph
I came into acting with that sort of dull, meet-with-triumph-and-disaster-the-same philosophy and it's been the right one for me. Jamie Sives
philosophy enemy doe
Truth is not the enemy and whatever does not kill us, sets us free. Janis Ian
philosophy philosopher
To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher. Blaise Pascal
philosophy wonder
Philosophy begins with wonder. Aristotle
philosophy army should-have
The point is, that the function of the novel seems to be changing; it has become an outpost of journalism; we read novels for information about areas of life we don't know - Nigeria, South Africa, the American army, a coal-mining village, coteries in Chelsea, etc. We read to find out what is going on. One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel - the quality of philosophy. Doris Lessing
philosophy medicine nerves
I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. e. e. cummings
philosophy struggle two
Only in the struggle between two philosophies can the weapon of brutal force, persistently and ruthlessly applied, lead to a decision for the side it supports. Adolf Hitler
mentally
That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him. Tony Russa
mention mere smile smiles
You smile with just the mere mention of his name. John Sullivan
men iron envy
As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man. Antisthenes
men life-is hanging-out
Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only. Barbara Jordan
men religion useless
Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity. Baruch Spinoza
men desire tongue
Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words. Baruch Spinoza
men simplicity fame
The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men. Augustus Hare
men shadow dying
Most of us were not afraid of death, only of the act of dying; and there were times when we overcame even this fear. At such moments we were free-men without shadows, dismissed from the ranks of the mortal; it was the most complete experience of freedom that can be granted a man. Arthur Koestler
men order evil
Modern man lives isolated in his artificial environment, not because the artificial is evil as such, but because of his lack of comprehension of the forces which make it work- of the principles which relate his gadgets to the forces of nature, to the universal order. It is not central heating which makes his existence 'unnatural,' but his refusal to take an interest in the principles behind it. By being entirely dependent on science, yet closing his mind to it, he leads the life of an urban barbarian. Arthur Koestler
dragons fire want
Destroy it?' Leo was appalled. 'You've got a life-size bronze dragon, and you want to destroy it?' 'It breathes fire,' Nyssa explained. 'It's deadly and out of control.' 'But it's a dragon! Rick Riordan