Quotes

-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