Posts tagged “philosophy”

“A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.”
B.F. Skinner

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, (b) Jan 30, 1882

A human being whose life is nurtured in an advantage which has accrued from the disadvantage of other human beings, and who prefers that this should remain as it is, is a human being by definition only, having much more in common with the bedbug, the tapeworm, the cancer, and the scavengers of the deep sea.
James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

Black care rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough.
Theodore Roosevelt

A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
Guy de Maupassant, (b) Aug. 5, 1850

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.
Norma Jean Mortenson

There are books in which the footnotes or comments scrawled by some reader’s hand in the margin are more interesting than the text. The world is one of these books.
George Santayana

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
Rudyard Kipling