#phil

All life is theatre,' he said. 'We are all actors, you and I, in a play which nobody wrote and which nobody will see. We have no audience but ourselves.... ↗

— Susan Cooper

#philosophical #theater #theatre #inspirational

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#doubt #ignorance #intelligence #knowledge #philosophy

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it. ↗

— George Savile

#been #business #celebrated #despised #most

I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them. ↗

— Cecilia Bartoli

#berlin #concert #did #great #i

There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician. ↗

— Daniel Bernoulli

#any #founded #get #knowledge #mathematician

Philosophy has forgotten about children ↗

— Bernhard Schlink

#inspirational #philosophical #inspirational

It is not that accepting and rejecting are great actions within themselves. But the right to accept or reject, now that is everything. ↗

— Joshua Emmet

#philosophy #inspirational

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#means #new #new philosophy #old #philosophy

The Anticipation is annihilated by the act ↗