All Quotes By Tag: Philosophy

“Believe in human beings – not all are good, but deep down all can be. But that doesn’t mean you need to hang around crappy people and try to turn them around.”

“Be the kind of person who catches the shit before it hits the fan, not the one who scrapes it off afterwards.”

“We’re on a planet, relax!”

“Make life easier by living in the present and believing in the future.”

“If you appreciate the small things, you’re likely to get the big ones.”

“Look, girls know when they’re cute,” he said. “You don’t have to tell them. All they need to do is look in the mirror. I have one friend out in New York, an attorney. She moved out there after the school year to take the bar. She doesn’t have a job. I was like, ‘How are you going to get a job there in this market?’ And she’s like, ‘I’ll wink and I’ll smile.’ She’s a pretty girl. Whether that works despite her poor grades is yet to be seen.”

“Imagination is cheap as long as you don’t have to worry about the details.”

“It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonable.”

“It’s not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth.”

“Philosophy without action is the ruin of the soul. One brave deed is worth a hundred books, a thousand theories, a million words. Now as always we need heroes. And heroines! Down with the passive and the limp.”

“The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be.”

“Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.”

“Snow floated down every once in a while, but it was frail snow, like a memory fading into the distance.”

“It’s not him who’s disturbed. But he likes to disturb others–to shake them out of their rut.”

“Were prayers of murderers, when fighting on the “right side” of the war, ever heard—let alone answered?”