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Without philosophy, history seems to me to be deaf and dumb. ~Ferdinand Baur, Symbolik und Mythologic



The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter. ~G.C. Lichtenberg



The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary



To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. ~Buddha



Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de Milo. If you will chisel away one fault from your character every day, you may discover -



Religion is the sign of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, and the soul of soul-less conditions. It is the opium of the people. ~Karl Marx, "Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right," 1884



Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I that have examined the parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that fabric hangs, do wonder that we are not always so; and considering the thousand doors that lead to death, do thank my God that we can die but once. ~Thomas Browne



An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis. ~Bergen Evans, "A Tale of a Tub," The Natural History of Nonsense



Sex got me into trouble from the age of fifteen: I'm hoping that by the time I'm seventy I'll straighten it out. ~Harold Robbins



You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. ~Hal Borland, Sundial of the Seasons, 1964



Everyone is as God made him, and often a good deal worse. ~Miguel de Cervantes



No news is good news. No journalists is even better. ~Nicolas Bentley



Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too. ~Greg, age 8



Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. ~John Galsworthy



You can't call it a sport. You don't run, jump, you don't shoot, you don't pass. All you have to do is buy some clothes that don't match. ~Steve Sax



One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem. ~Alexander Jodorowsky



People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them. ~Dave Barry



Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to. ~Oscar Wilde



Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry. ~Lyman Abbott