Random quotes

Quotes in
Sorted by
Author
Subject
Text
Show as list
2718 quotes    

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
 
Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected.
 
Love is blind, as they say, and because love is blind, it often leads to tragedy.
 
In the year 2006, a person can have sufficient intellectual and material resources to build a nuclear bomb and still believe that he will get seventy-two virgins in Paradise.
 
People prefer bad company to solitude and anything to one's own company.
 
All the worlds a stage, | And all the men and women merely players: | They have their exits, and their entrances; |And one man in his time plays many parts.
 
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. 
 
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
 
Religion as madness is a madness springing from irreligiousness.
 
I was once interviewed in Italy and the headline of the interview the next day was wonderful. I saved this for my collection it was... "YES we have a soul but it's made of lots of tiny robots" and I thought that's exactly right. Yes we have a soul, but it's mechanical. But it's still a soul, it still does the work that the soul was supposed to do. It is the seat of reason. It is the seat of moral responsibility. It's why we are appropriate objects of punishment when we do evil things, why we deserve the praise when we do good things. It's just not a mysterious lump of wonder stuff... that will out live us.
 
The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.
 
Faith, if it is ever right about anything, is right by accident.
 
Human well-being is not a random phenomenon. It depends on many factors - ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics. But, clearly, there are scientific truths to be known about how we can flourish in this world. Wherever we can have an impact on the well-being of others, questions of morality apply.
 
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
 
We are all members of the same flawed species. Putting our moral vision into practice means imposing our will on others. The human lust for power and esteem, coupled with its vulnerability to self-deception and self-righteousness, makes that an invitation to a calamity, all the worse when the power is directed at a goal as quixotic as eradicating human self-interest.
 
I think so badly of philosophy that I don't like to talk about it. ... I do not want to say anything bad about my dear colleagues, but the profession of teacher of philosophy is a ridiculous one. We don't need a thousand of trained, and badly trained, philosophers — it is very silly. Actually most of them have nothing to say.
 
The only place where I can go into my own world is in my journal. Everywhere else is the place where I go into the world of others.
 
The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused.
 
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
 
Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
 
2718 quotes