Consolation Of Philosophy Quotes

#1. Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#2. When business became big business - conglomerates employing hundreds and even thousands of people - companies divided themselves into still smaller units.

Jill Lepore

#3. The pain, you know. It's one hell of a way to die.

Jeffery Deaver

#4. Philosophy is a proud, sullen detector of the poverty and misery of man. It may turn him from the world with a proud, sturdy contempt; but it cannot come forward and say, here are rest, grace, pardon, peace, strength, and consolation.

Richard Cecil

#5. God has broken me in every way possible. I spent a year not caring, a year trying to figure out what I'd done to deserve it. and a year trying to make it right.

Cassandra Giovanni

#6. No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.

Claire LaZebnik

#7. We must, between periods of digging in the dark, endeavour always to transform our tears into knowledge.

Alain De Botton

#8. It's not just my imagination - looking at the sky, the clouds, the moon and the stars really does make me feel calm and hopeful. It's much better medicine than valerian or bromide. Nature makes me feel humble and ready to face every blow with courage! As

Anne Frank

#9. It is a mere consolation to the timid to imagine that philosophy has died. The fact of the matter is quite to the contrary. Philosophy will be the last of human things; perhaps the efficient impulse of the end.

Nick Land

#10. Search me," I said. "I'm a city boy myself. They must be crocuses.

Saul Bellow

#11. But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.

Pete Seeger

#12. Philosophers console themselves with explanations.

Marty Rubin

#13. I think that great programming is not all that dissimilar to great art. Once you start thinking in concepts of programming it makes you a better person ... as does learning a foreign language, as does learning math, as does learning how to read.

Jack Dorsey

#14. Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank.

Immanuel Kant

#15. When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy.

David Cronenberg

#16. At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin.

Seth Godin

#17. At heart, we're all violent raging wolves, but in our actions we can be pacifists.

Polly Horvath