-The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
Albert Camus-He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts for support rather than for illumination.
Andre Lang-It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle-Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
Edward Abbey-Among the facts of the universe to be accounted for, it may be said, is Mind; and it is self evident that nothing can have produced Mind but Mind.
John Stuart Mill
-Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know.
Bertrand Russell-I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
John D. Rockefeller-The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.
Mark Twain -Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex.
Karl Marx-The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.
Karl Marx -I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Baruch Spinoza-The supposition that the future resembles the past, is not founded on arguments of any kind, but is derived entirely from habit.
David Hume-I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it.
John Stuart Mill-Nature abhors a vacuum.
Benedict Spinoza-Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein-I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
Thomas Jefferson