More quotations tagged with “philosophy”
Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
—Will Cuppy
There are only two mantras: yum and yuck. Mine is yum.
—Tom Robbins
If you study Japanese art, you see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic, and intelligent who spends his time how? In studying the distance between the earth and the moon? No. In studying the policy of Bismarck? No. He studies a single blade of grass. But this blade of grass leads him to draw every plant and then the seasons, the wide aspect of the countryside, then animals, then the human figure. So he passes his life, and life is too short to do the whole.
—Vincent Van Gogh
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
—Voltaire
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
—William James