Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jacques Maritain

A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me.

Manly Hall

Experiences are the chemicals of life with which the philosopher experiments

Ludwig Wittgenstein

This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.

Terry Pratchett

Are you a philosopher? Where's your sponge?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The philosophers must station themselves in the middle.

Nick Harkaway

It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless consideration of unsettling yet inconsequential things.

John Copeland

It always strikes me as somewhat absurd that strikes are referred to as "industrial action", for they are nothing of the sort, almost as daft as the sexual act being described as "sleeping together

John Copeland

It always strikes me as somewhat absurd that strikes are referred to as ""industrial action"", for they are nothing of the sort, almost as daft as the sexual act being described as ""sleeping together

George Pierce Baker

In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.

Stephen Hunter

Considered purely as effects-driven filmed drama, 'The Day After Tomorrow' checks in somewhere in the middle of one of Hollywood's most absurd and least lamented dead genres, the disaster pic of the '70s. It's a little better than 'Earthquake' but not as good as 'The Towering Inferno,' because it doesn't star Steve McQueen and Paul Newman.

Kenneth Koch

Here I was in my 20s, and life seemed to me so exciting and full of girls and gardens and steamships and drinks and tennis games and countries and cathedrals... I mean, it seemed absurd to be writing these drab, depressed little poems. I knew there were things like death and poverty and injustice, but they weren't everything.

Tom O'Neill

Historically, they've demonstrated a shocking lack of humor for people in such an absurd industry.

Guy Quaden

It is absurd to think that such an interest rate could kill growth.

Salman Rushdie

I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.

Robert Brown

I have written three books on the soul, / Proving absurd all written hitherto, / And putting us to ignorance again.

Richelle Mead

Would he have said he loved me? I would ask myself that for the rest of my life.

Romy Schneider

You must not quote to me what I once said. I am wiser now.

Umberto Eco

I seal that which was not to be said in the tomb that I become.

Truman Capote

Randolph," he said, "were you ever as young as me?" And Randolph said: "I was never so old.

William Sanderson

I've said maybe too many times that I'd rather be typecast than not cast at all.

Sappho

What cannot be said will be wept.

Richard M. Nixon

I know you heard what you thought I said, but what I said isn't what I meant.

Robert Rubin

I agree with what the Chairman Greenspan said whatever it is that he did say.

William Carey

The less said about me the better.