Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life. The aim of art is not the one-sided promotion of spirit, soul and senses, but the op….
I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humor doesn't know what he's talking a….
Grover didn't say anything for awhile. Then, when I thought he was going to give me some deep philosophical comment to make me feel better, he said, ….
Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it..
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error..
An unjust peace is better than a just war..
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection..
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all..
The word of man is the most durable of all material..
Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is..
That's a stupid question,' said Malachi. 'Because he didn't warn him. He didn't warn anyone.' 'No, it's a philosophical question,' Kearns corrected h….
Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom..
Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right..
Philosophy, having crept clinging to the rocks so far, puts out its feelers many ways in vain..
Andy Brown is one of our most interesting and exciting younger poets. With its love of ideas and language, his work demonstrates that there need be n….
What you believe matters, however. It’s all anyone has to act on. And since what you do is who you are, your actions define you. If you don’t believe….
The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it..
Life is better lived than conceptualized. — This writing can be less demanding should I allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of rol….
Elephant and Piggie have a very large input. They have a distinct aesthetic taste. They like books that are philosophical. They like books that are d….
I can’t think of a more philosophical time in a person’s life than when they are children. It’s the one time when ideas are really beautiful and ama….
States are as the men, they grow out of human characters..