Nicholas Rescher Quotes

#1. Success comes more quickly to the entrepreneur that follows his instincts rather than following the progress of his competitors.

Alan Sugar

#2. I'm not after a closed system, I mean I'm after a complicated system in structure, but as far as watching it, I don't think that everything should be decided.

Mark Morris

#3. Life is a festival only to the wise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. It is the hardest thing of all, the one thing that will show if you have the one true courage. To know that you have failed, that your best efforts have been defeated, to not be able to stand it, to not be able to go on and yet to go on nonetheless.

Silvia Hartmann

#5. The dangerous pileup of modifiers is a hallmark of Joel's rhetorical style.

Michael Pollan

#6. I fainted ... and you ate my ass?
You fed me my own ass?

Chuck Palahniuk

#7. It is very hard to be brave," said Piglet, sniffing slightly, "when you're only a Very Small Animal."
Rabbit, who had begun to write very busily, looked up and said: "It is because you are a very small animal that you will be Useful in the adventure before us.

Benjamin Hoff

#8. We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.

L. Neil Smith

#9. I do think that many Americans have a limited view of what constitutes Japanese cartooning based on what gets translated, so it's great to see an increase in diversity.

Adrian Tomine

#10. One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the fates they deserve.

Nicholas Rescher

#11. Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.

John Cale