#phil

We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#forget #forgetting #literature #literature-quotes #old-stories

Civilization is only possible for deeply unpleasant animals. It is only an ape that can be truly civilized. ↗

— Mark Rowlands

#animals #inspiring #memoir #pet #philosophy

The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant. ↗

— Julien Benda

#attached #man #merchant #much #nations

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#intelligence #philosophers #poets #sense

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#established #how #i #i do #know

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#beauty #literature #philosophy #art

My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all. ↗

— John Bolton

#best #better #closer #government #look

The people in the Philippines are so extraordinarily nice. ↗

— Tony Gilroy

#nice #people #philippines

It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#clear #complicated #good #good reason #many

Together, "Light and Knowledge" are Inanimate, Intangible, and Inseparable. ↗

— William Bailey

#science #death