If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.
Søren KierkegaardTag: philosophy
A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent, so that if he does not attain to their greatness, at any rate he will get some tinge of it.
Niccolò MachiavelliTag: philosophy
The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynTag: philosophy
Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so wide and so widening is the gulf that stretches between the natural and the philosophic man, so many the good chaps who are wrecked in trying to cross it.
E.M. ForsterTag: philosophy culture
Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.
Ray BradburyTag: reading writing philosophy censorship wit digression
Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine.
Woody AllenTag: philosophy insight
The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees but, now for 1800 years, the philosophers so much to think about.
Søren KierkegaardTag: philosophy god
I am one thing, my writings are another.
Friedrich NietzscheTag: philosophy
People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.
Michel FoucaultTag: wisdom philosophy
The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?
Gilles DeleuzeTag: writing philosophy
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