Quotes tagged with 'philosophy'

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise, they grow careful.
—Ernest Hemingway life philosophy

None of us are getting out of here alive, so please stop treating yourself like an after thought. Eat the delicious food. Walk in the sunshine. Jump in the ocean. Say the truth that you’re carrying in your heart like hidden treasure. Be silly. Be kind. Be weird. There’s no time for anything else.
—Anthony Hopkins life philosophy

The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior ‘righteous indignation’ — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.
—Aldous Huxley government life philosophy

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
—Aldous Huxley philosophy

Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first.
—Steve Irwin life philosophy

I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
—Thomas Jefferson life philosophy

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
—Thomas Jefferson goverment philosophy

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
—Søren Kierkegaard life philosophy

The man show asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.
—Confucius Kǒngzǐ life philosophy

And time, the most precious commodity of all, far more valuable than gold, has been devalued as people are forced to squander it in a terribly backward equation - trading it for money. Just how crazy is that? Who, when their allotment of time is all but spent, would not trade every bit of gold for just a fraction more time?
—John Kretschmer life philosophy sailing