Armchair Philosopher Quotes

#1. That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.

William Osler

#2. He had no choice, he had told her, and then he left, choosing.

George R R Martin

#3. I feel that there is a decision people make to either engage in a legitimately ridiculous process to get your kid into school, or choose not to engage in that so much, and end up finding a nice local school that fits.

John Hodgman

#4. I don't want to see you again, Herakles," I added. "You won't," he replied. "Congrats. I heard your father is dead." "It should've been you who took his life." "I would've done it, had you asked." "I know. I planned on it the day you disappeared. But, it worked out, didn't it?

Lizzy Ford

#5. No laws: to break, or to follow. Do anything you want. Which does funny things to you. Very quickly, surprisingly quickly, you become-" [ ... ] "exactly who you are.

Samuel R. Delany

#6. You can't give someone five hundred punches in a film anymore. You beat on them, and they continue to stand there staring at you. That doesn't work. People just don't buy that anymore.

Dolph Lundgren

#7. The largest factor in our well-being is the place where our mind dwells.

Scott Eblin

#8. I'VE NEVER BEEN VERY SURE ABOUT WHAT IS RIGHT, said Bill Door. I AM NOT SURE THERE IS SUCH A THING AS RIGHT. OR WRONG. JUST PLACES TO STAND.

Terry Pratchett

#9. By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench.

Ian Hacking

#10. It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe.

Warren Christopher

#11. Too many people don't protect their smartphones with a password or PIN. I anticipate that Apple's fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners more likely to secure their smartphones.

Al Franken

#12. Of course, to a true geek, the glass is neither half-full nor half-empty. It's twice as big as it currently needs to be, though a reasonable reserve margin is not a bad thing to have ready, just in case.

David S. Platt

#13. The true philosopher is a man who says "All right," and goes to sleep in his armchair.

P.G. Wodehouse

#14. He who sees without loving is only straining his eyes in the darkness.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#15. surely you're enough of an armchair philosopher to realize that everything is a reconstruction of something else? Reality is a desperate and evasive creature.

Jeff VanderMeer

#16. Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.

William Safire