All - Quotes
Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.
I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
I think [...] [firearms] were invented by Satan himself, for they can`t be defended against with weapons and fists. All human strength vanishes when confronted with firearms. A man is dead before he sees what`s coming.
Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won`t make it "white".
After all you only lived one life, and if you missed the bus, you were just left on the pavement, along with the rest of the failures.
Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.
Believers say they can know the truth - the greatest truth of all about the nature of the Universe, namely the source of all existence - simply by sitting quietly and listening to their hearts... and then accuse atheists of being arrogant. And this attitude isn`t just arrogant towards atheists. It`s arrogant towards people of other religions who have sat just as quietly, listened to their hearts with just as much sincerity, and come to completely opposite conclusions about God and the soul and the Universe.
The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.
We philosophers are mistake specialists. (I know, it sounds like a bad joke, but hear me out.) While other disciplines specialize in getting the right answers to their defining questions, we philosophers specialize in all the ways there are of getting things so mixed up, so deeply wrong, that nobody is even sure what the right questions are, let alone the answers. Asking the wrongs questions risks setting any inquiry off on the wrong foot. Whenever that happens, this is a job for philosophers! Philosophy - in every field of inquiry - is what you have to do until you figure out what questions you should have been asking in the first place.