Philosophical problems can be compared to locks on safes, which can be opened by dialing a certain word or number, so that no force can open the door….
Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we….
Only one time in my career I had that feeling [that this is not gonna get made], it was for this movie [Life of Pi]. It was right before we started t….
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy..
And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last..
If you understand compound interest, you basically understand the universe..
Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another..
The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour..
I think that every educator, indeed every human being, is concerned with what is true and what is not; what experiences to cherish and which ones to ….
Attention to health is life greatest hindrance..
The more I go into I, the more I fall out of I..
Men exist for the sake of one another..
As our domestic fowls are said to have their original in the wild pheasant of India, so our domestic thoughts have their prototypes in the thoughts o….
Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think..
The medicine increases the disease..
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul..
All philosophy is a 'critique of language' (though not in Mauthner's sense). It was Russell who performed the service of showing that the apparent lo….
On scientific grounds this big bang assumption is much less the palatable of the two. For it is an irrational process that cannot be described in sci….
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about..
Wisest is he who knows what he does not know..
We can't know or say what other people do. You have to think what you want to do to get the situation where you want it to be..