#phil

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. ↗

— Epictetus

#essence #external #external things #happiness #his

So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine. ↗

— Jeff Vandermeer

#housed #magazine #many #opinions #philosophies

After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna. ↗

— Karl von Frisch

#exams #faculty #first #i #munich

The winding down of summer puts me in a heavy philosophical mood. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

#heavy #me #mood #philosophical #puts

Madam Dorothea shot him a dark look. "If you were half as funny as you thought you were, my boy, you'd be twice as funny as you are. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#insults #philosophical #funny

In coming to that agreement, my party had a clear philosophy throughout. In Northern Ireland, we should have institutions that respected the differences of the people and that gave no victory to either side. ↗

— John Hume

#clear #coming #differences #either #gave

One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. ↗

— Plato

#politics #political

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#fabled #fortune #good #good fortune #labor

To my mind, the best SF addresses itself to problems of the here and now, or even to problems which have never been solved and never will be solved - I'm thinking of Philip K. Dick's work here, dealing with questions of reality, for example. ↗

— John Sladek

#best #dealing #even #example #for example

I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy at Wayne University, and my mother was also a teacher. ↗

— Marta Kristen

#born #detroit #father #i #i was born