Philosophical Dictionary Quotes

#1. Those who are absent, by its means become present: correspondence is the consolation of life. - VOLTAIRE, Philosophical Dictionary

Colin Dexter

#2. Even if we're not always so glad to be here, it's our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open.

Donna Tartt

#3. Thomas Piketty assembles the facts to prove a central point about trickle-down economics: Doesn't work. Never did. He has cold, hard data showing how the rich keep getting richer and how the playing field is rigged against working families.

Elizabeth Warren

#4. The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows.

Neil Gaiman

#5. No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God.

William Blackstone

#6. Your business has to work when it's small in order to survive to the point where it gets big.

Seth Godin

#7. I decide to go out and spend all my money on underwear, then throw them about the room to
decide my fate like a satiny, lace-gusseted I Ching. Let the gods of Beau Bra decide.

Belle De Jour

#8. When a priest says 'Worship God, be just, indulgent, compassionate', he is a very good doctor. When he says, 'Believe me or you will be killed', he is a murderer." - Voltaire

G.K. Noyer

#9. The souls moving along ... are they invisible while the least atom of the stones is visible?

Walt Whitman

#10. I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.

Oscar Wilde

#11. Life's best adventures are as close as your nearest bookshelf. Tour Europe with the Count of Monte Cristo. Dance a ball with Mr Darcy. Hunt down bad guys with Stephanie Plum. Amazing things can happen when you read.

Ally Carter

#12. So Father Ring went off in the lofty mood of a man who has defended a principle at a great sacrifice to himself, but that very night he began to brood and he continued to brood till that sickly looking voluptuary of a ten-shilling note took on all the radiance and charm of a virgin of seventeen.

Frank O'Connor

#13. Love gives you the strength to face an army, vampire or human ... Love gives you a reason to press on through the storm. Love helps you think clearly and follow the clues ahead, if you know where they lead.

J.X. Burros