All Quotes By Tag: Philosophy

“Mereka yang berani adalah mereka yang telah berkorban menemukan dirinya sendiri”

“If you go to Singapore or Amsterdam or Seoul or Buenos Aires or Islamabad or Johannesburg or Tampa or Istanbul or Kyoto, you’ll find that the people differ wildly in the way they dress, in their marriage customs, in the holidays they observe, in their religious rituals, and so on, but they all expect the food to be under lock and key. It’s all owned, and if you want some, you’ll have to buy it.”

“Thank heaven for people who are satisfied with facts that conform to the reality they wish to believe.”

“The Philosopher’s Motto: I came, I saw, I pondered!”

“I mean really, how could an artistic individual stay grounded in the nitty-gritty of how many minutes per pound meat has to stay in the oven when trying to fathom the creative philosophy behind the greatest artistic minds of the world?”

“By heavens! there is something after all in the world allowing one man to steal a horse while another must not look at a halter. Steal a horse straight out. Very well. He has done it. Perhaps he can ride. But there is a way of looking at a halter that would provoke the most charitable of saints into a kick.”

“Putting food under lock and key was one of the great innovations of your culture. No other culture in history has ever put food under lock and key – and putting it there is the cornerstone of your economy.[…] Because if the food wasn’t under lock and key, Julie, who would work?”

“If your dreams seem to be drifting away, wake up!”

“To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent condemns one in our society to a dark and disillusioned life…to beauty all is forgiven.”

“My ship came in,then it sank!”

“If you write in the Old World, and against it, your work must die, go missing, be veiled, before it can live the life for which it was destined in the New World.”

“Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars. They belong not to one system, one nation only, but to the universe. And just because they are so very far away, it is usually many years before their light is visible to the inhabitants of this earth.”

“Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.”

“Always blow your own trumpet, blowing someone else’s is unhygienic”

“The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.”