Epicureans Quotes

#1. His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools
the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans
and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, 'You can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink.

Terry Pratchett

#2. With the Epicureans it was never science for the sake of science but always science for the sake of human happiness.

Epicurus

#3. Heresy is a word which, when it is used without passion, signifies a private opinion. So the different sects of the old philosophers, Academians, Peripatetics, Epicureans, Stoics, &c., were called heresies.

Thomas Hobbes

#4. There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined.

Georg Buchner

#5. In the third section, you proceed to turn us into modest and peace-loving Epicureans.

Martin Luther

#6. He belonged to the new breed of male epicureans who viewed cooking as a competitive sport, and pursued it with the same avidity that others had for fly-fishing or golf, with the attendant fetishization of the associated gadgetry and equipment. He

Jay McInerney

#7. She wasn't bitter. But it was a hopeful kind of sad that just takes time

Stephen Chbosky

#8. What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.

Jonas Salk

#9. Courage doesn't know what's around the corner, but goes around it anyway.

Mignon McLaughlin

#10. When my mother threw a party, even as a kid, she'd call me in and say, 'Organize it for me.'

Reem Acra

#11. Is it still a secret if nobody cares
if having the knowledge in no way impairs

Maggie Stiefvater

#12. Everybody say it's impossible, but I'll try to make it possible

Bangambiki Habyarimana