Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.
Trin Tragula—for that was his name—was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher or as his wife would have it, an idiot.
What's a philosopher?' said Brutha. Someone who's bright enough to find a job with no heavy lifting,' said a voice in his head.
From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition.
A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading.
I’ve always hated the “Who are you?" question. This is a philosophical inquiry. Answering that question is why we’re on earth. You can’t answer it in thirty seconds or in an elevator.
All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.
Lawn looked down at his patient. "In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?
Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.
For other great mathematicians or philosophers, used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for alone he kept the prefix summus.
I’m not sitting around doing nothing. I’m busy petting the cat. Why hasn’t anybody told the philosophers that this is the meaning of life?
They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
Faith, for me, isn't an argument, a catechism, a philosophical “proof.” It is instead a lens, a way of experiencing life, and a willingness to act.
The Jews are an ignorant and barbarous people, who have long united the most sordid avarice with the most detestable superstition and the most invincible hatred for every people by whom they are tolerated and enriched.
Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.
No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth
When you reach the middle of your career ladder, turn it the other way around and slide down to the top
If you change who you are to suit other people, you may end up dressed for the wrong occasion
It's never too late to change, unless you're already fully undressed
