All Quotes By Tag: Philosophy

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”

“Music is … A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”

“You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”

“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”

“Let’s think the unthinkable, let’s do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”

“You do not write your life with words…You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”

“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”

“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”

“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”