Bleak Philosophy Quotes

#1. This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings.

Aldous Huxley

#2. In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses.

Aime Martin

#3. He that shall peruse the political pamphlets of any past reign will wonder why they were so eagerly read, or so loudly praised.

Samuel Johnson

#4. Tax rates for the wealthy should revert to Clinton-era levels, both because it is necessary for long-term deficit reduction and because fairness dictates it. Moreover, there is no proof that higher marginal rates dissuade investment, all the rhetoric from the Right notwithstanding.

Eliot Spitzer

#5. Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away.

William Osler

#6. Now I am a vagabond of the universe, a drifter among spaces where the madness of things has no limits.

Thomas Ligotti

#7. I look back at myself, this innocent person, and I think, 'Gosh, she's okay.' I handled a lot, and I'm still here.

Brooke Shields

#8. For there are fashions in myth, and the world-conquering West of the nineteenth century needed a philosophy of life in which realpolitik - victory for the tough people who face the bleak facts - was the guiding principle. Thus the bleaker the facts you face, the tougher you seem to be.

Alan W. Watts

#9. A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.

Christopher Hitchens

#10. One of the things that attracted me to Barack was his emotional honesty. Right off the bat he said what he felt. There are no games with him - he is who he appears to be. I feel fortunate as a woman to have a husband who loves me and shows me in every way.

Michel'le