#phil

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#i think #once #philadelphia #spent #sunday

Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#professors #thinkers #write #writers

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#anxiety #ideas #impersonal #philosophy #refuge

'Never look back' is my philosophy. ↗

— Helen Clark

#look #never #philosophy

Here lies W. C. Fields. I would rather be living in Philadelphia. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#here #i #lies #living #philadelphia

People who decide they came to earth to work, who make work their personal philosophy, are kept very busy. ↗

— Constantine Karamanlis

#came #decide #earth #kept #make

You do what you have to do in life, when you form a philosophy that you can't talk yourself out of. ↗

— Constantine Karamanlis

#life #out #philosophy #talk #you

Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar men like Caius Valerius. But they were all around; it was Manlius who lived in a dream world, and his bubble of civility was becoming smaller and smaller. Caius Valerius, powerful member of a powerful family, had never even heard of Plato. A hundred, even fifty years before, such an absurdity would have been inconceivable. Now it was surprising if such a man did know anything of philosophy, and even if it was explained, he would not wish to understand. ↗

— Iain Pears

#civilization #crudeness #education #knowledge #like-mindedness

In taking action we must remember that the things which are happening to the Jews today are but a part of the general disintegration anticipated by philosophers and historians of different schools for almost half a century. ↗

— Louis Finkelstein

#almost #anticipated #century #different #different schools

If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

#care #full #had #infused #institutions