Consolations Of Philosophy Quotes

#1. It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.

Willard Van Orman Quine

#2. The author can always delve into his own personality and find aspects of himself with which he can dress his characters.

Terry Pratchett

#3. It only takes a second for you to call a girl fat and she will starve herself for the rest of her life. Think before you act.

Harry Styles

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

Alain De Botton

#5. Beauty is a promise of happiness.

Alain De Botton

#6. You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

George Cukor

#7. Whereas the consolations of religion are mainly personal, the burdens are social and political as well as personal.

A.C. Grayling

#8. There was already something dead about him. He didn't rear back in his knees any longer. He squatted over his ankles when he walked. That stillness at the back of his neck. His prosperous-looking belly ... sagged like a load suspended from his loins.

Zora Neale Hurston

#9. Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.

Aldous Huxley

#10. Whatever comes to your consciousness is what you act out.

Sunday Adelaja

#11. Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

Cesare Pavese

#12. I'm learning that both body and soul require more tenderness and attentiveness than I had imagined.

Shauna Niequist

#13. Tiny Tim? Anyone could sing like that. It's atrocious. It's hideous, really.

Maurice Gibb

#14. Time is like a handful of sand - the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.

Henry David Thoreau

#15. The name of God is the name of the chance for something absolutely new, for a new birth, for the expectation, the hope, the hope against hope (Rom. 4:18) in a transforming future. Without it we are left without hope and are absorbed by rational management techniques.

John D. Caputo

#16. My childhood memories reside somewhere in my subconscious part of my brain. Somehow I feel that my subconscious part creates far more interesting things than my conscious part can ever dream of.

Akram Khan