“The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.”
Adam Sedgwick
“A man is about as big as the things that make him angry”
Winston Churchill
“Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.”
Dale Carnegie
“There is a desire deep within the soul which drives man from the seen to the unseen, to philosophy and to the divine”
Kahlil Gibran
“The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man”
David Hume
“Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson