philosophy quotes on life

You are what you eat. For example, if you eat garlic you're apt to be a hermit. ~Franklin P. Jones



Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. ~H.L. Mencken



Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. ~Ambrose Bierce



A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun. ~Thomas Carlyle



Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy. ~Henry Kissinger



We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more. ~Carl Gustav Jung



Only you can set you free. ~Living Colour, "Cult of Personality"



There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats. ~Albert Schweitzer



Librarians are almost always very helpful and often almost absurdly knowledgeable. Their skills are probably very underestimated and largely underemployed. ~Charles Medawar



A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not. ~Author Unknown



Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon. ~Agnes Repplier, Points of View, 1891



A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography? ~Stanislaw J. Lec



A dirty book is rarely dusty. ~Author Unknown



Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. ~Jacques Barzun



Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. ~Ernest Hemingway, Men at War, 1942



History is the essence of innumerable biographies. ~Thomas Carlyle, On History



A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858



An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too. ~Pam Brown



You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic. ~Elias Canetti



Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. ~John Dewey