Cynicism Philosophy Quotes

#1. Evil is boring. Cynicism is pointless. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Hopelessness is self-indulgent. On the other hand: Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius. Pleasure is our birthright. Chronic ecstasy is a learnable skill.

Rob Brezsny

#2. It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.

Diogenes Of Sinope

#3. you are as far
as the moon
and as close
as it feels
when I look upon it.

Christina Strigas

#4. On the brink of sleep I have a gloomy thought: that saving yourself is only pushing yourself even deeper into the trap rather than getting out. Dying is the only way out.

Erri De Luca

#5. To sum it all up, the [Ayn] Rand belief system looks like this:
1. Facts are facts: things can be absolutely right or absolutely wrong, as determined by reason.
2. According to my reasoning, I am absolutely right.
3. Charity is immoral.
4. Pay for your own fucking schools.

Matt Taibbi

#6. It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

Diogenes Of Sinope

#7. If we get the right people in the right job we've won the game.

Jack Welch

#8. The truth is that there are two men in Ibsen - an idealist, exalted to the verge of sentimentality, and a critic, hard, inexorable, remorseless, to the verge of cynicism. What we call his "social philosophy" is a modus vivendi arrived at between them. Both agree in repudiating "marriage for love";

Henrik Ibsen

#9. They who, without any previous knowledge of us, think amiss of us, do us no harm; they attack not us, but the phantom of their own imagination.

Jean De La Bruyere

#10. The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance

Anna Funder

#11. Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

Joseph Brodsky

#12. When everything comes easily to you, it never challenges you to change.

Katie Kacvinsky

#13. 'No business before breakfast, Glum!' says the King. 'Breakfast first, business next.'

William Makepeace Thackeray

#14. Tolerating organized crime promotes the cheap philosophy that everything is a racket. It promotes cynicism among adults. It contributes to the confusion of the young and to the increase of juvenile delinquency.

Robert Kennedy

#15. If I was going to make one rule change, I would bring the DH in the National League.

George Brett

#16. I'm not into this whole "move with the times" thing. I reckon we should just decide on a year and stick with it.

R.D. Ronald

#17. And yet, scholars said it must be a plant for the way it grew and reached toward the light. Men did that too, he thought. Once.

Brandon Sanderson

#18. What I like is when you can hear the heart and soul of music and can feel the energy coming out of it, because that's what it's like when you drive.

Allan McNish

#19. Ignore cynicism, appreciate criticism, and embrace optimism.

Debasish Mridha

#20. We can let our past [difficulties and failures] beat us or teach us [to be more knowledgeable, competent and realistic in the future]!

Zig Ziglar

#21. Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.

Diogenes Of Sinope

#22. He had a look of composed dissatisfaction, as if he understood life thoroughly.

Flannery O'Connor

#23. In theory man is put at the center of everything but in practice he is barely allowed to sit on the sidelines

Bangambiki Habyarimana