In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations
What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.
In the past, only some of the males, but all of the females, were able to procreate. Equality is more natural for females.
true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing
The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds
They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.
Democracy should always be viewed with a philosophical perspective rather than a political one, because after all democracy was born to a philosopher and murdered by a politician.
He sensed Death with a depth and clarity of which only small children or great philosophers are capable, philosophers who are themselves almost childlike in the power and simplicity of their thinking.
kepuasan diri melindungi orang bahkan dari terkena pilek. pernahkah seorang perempuan yang tahu bahwa ia berpakaian pantas terkena pilek? saya asumsikan dia hampir tidak berpakaian samasekali
I’ve been trying to get my career off the ground for so long, I’ve given up and decided to become a pilot.
Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die.
It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.
Whoever possessed knowledge not only had power over the changeable passions of people, but also power over their thinking, over their minds, hearts and souls.
Even when we strive for perfection, life is nothing more than an attempt to achieve it through a series of greater or smaller imperfections.
I no longer believe in love," she said bitterly. "When people claim to have lost their heart, it's usually only their wits that have vanished.
I would advise a stupid woman always to follow her hsuband - however, a smart woman should rely on her own instincts.
The being called God...bears every mark of a veil woven by philosophical conceit, to hide the ignorance of philosophers even from themselves. They borrow the threads of its texture from the anthropomorphism of the vulgar.
Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.
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.
And although it might be best of all to be Socrates satisfied, having both happiness and depth, we would give up some happiness in order to gain the depth.
Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises with debt spending
