Philosophy, Government, Change, Interactions Quotes

PHILOSOPHY
Josiah Royce
Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.

GOVERNMENT
Alfred North Whitehead
Governments are best classified by considering who are the “somebodies” they are in fact endeavoring to satisfy.

CHANGE
David Viscott
No one can make you change. No one can stop you from changing. No one really knows how you must change. Not even you. Not until you start.

INTERACTIONS
Oscar Wilde
I like looking at geniuses, and listening to beautiful people.

Philsophy, Capitalism, Striving, Interactions Quotes

PHILOSOPHY
Karl Heinrich Marx
Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex.

CAPITALISM
Ludwig von Mises
The inequality of income and fortunes is essential in capitalism.

STRIVING
Toni Morrison
If there’s a book you want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.

INTERACTIONS
John W. Raper
Sympathy is never wasted except when you give it to yourself.

Philosophy, Academia, Stagnation, Service

PHILOSOPHY

John Robert Fowles
An answer is always a form of death.

ACADEMIA

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

STAGNATION

Lowell Fillmore
When we hear somebody complaining that he has not enough, we may know that he has not expressed enough appreciation for what he already has.

SERVICE

Napoleon Hill
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Philosophy, Academia, Stagnation, Love

Philosophy

Anonymous
For the good man to realize that it is better to be whole than good is to enter on a straight and narrow path compared to which his previous rectitude was flowery license.

Academia

Leo Botstein
At most, college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel.

Stagnation

Robert Allen
... the vast bulk of humanity isn’t nice. They aren’t even really nasty, they’re just a heap of disorganized appetites that are struggling to be satisfied. It’s not hard to see why some of our writers and philosophers have found humanity a pretty dismal prospect.

Love

Jean Anouilh
Oh, love is real enough, you will find it some day, but it has one arch-enemy – and that is life.