Famous Philosophers And Their Quotes

#1. It's not much. You begin by thinking there is something extraordinary about it. But you'll find out, when you've been out in the world a while longer, unhappiness is the commonest thing there is.

Erich Maria Remarque

#2. My mother practiced hours every day, hours as painful to hear as to play. At first everybody thought she would give in. Day followed day, and the terrible stumbling sounds went on for hours on end.
She did not know what else to do.

Helen DeWitt

#3. I've been told by many the art of poetry's dead, I believe it's alive on pages they haven't read

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#4. If you don't read, I don't know how to communicate with you ... I can never express who I am in my own words as powerfully as my books can.

Donalyn Miller

#5. When traveling is made too easy and comfortable, its spiritual meaning is lost. This may be called sentimentalism, but a certain sense of loneliness engendered by traveling leads one to reflect upon the meaning of life, for life is after all a travelling from one unknown to another unknown.

D.T. Suzuki

#6. The change will only happen outside once we change within ourselves.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#7. The seeds from Ramanujan's garden have been blowing on the wind and have been sprouting all over the landscape.
[On the stimulating effects of Ramanujan's mathematical legacy.]

Freeman Dyson

#8. I can rest when I'm dead.

Robert Jordan

#9. Your life has turned out the way it has for a reason. And now, you need to unearth that purpose and use it for your own good and the greater good.

Joanne Guidoccio

#10. I know Simon and I will always be enemies..
But I thought maybe we'd get to a point where we didn't want to be.

Rainbow Rowell

#11. It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.

Brian Eno

#12. When I sing, I try to live the song or live the emotion of the song. The space I'm in doesn't exist. It's another world.

Roger Daltrey

#13. arts, I said, just like that in painting, in literature, I said, even philosophers are ignorant of philosophy. Most artists are ignorant of their art. They have a dilettante's notion of art, remain stuck all their lives in dilettantism, even the most famous artists in the world. We

Thomas Bernhard

#14. I have been baptized twice, once in water, once in flame. I will carry the fire of the holy spirit inside until I stand before my Lord for judgement.

Joshua