Quotes About Famous Philosophers

#1. 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

#2. And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.

Donald Miller

#3. You can't look outside of yourself. You must look within yourself, and address all of the things that are going on within you, and clear out the things that are not useful. Whether it's fear or anger or shame or guilt or whatever it is - clean that stuff up.

Iyanla Vanzant

#4. His [Lord Peter's] long, amiable face looked as if it had generated spontaneously from his top hat, as white maggots breed from Gorgonzola.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#5. Well, intuition isn't much help in police work. Facts are what we need.

Crane Wilbur

#6. You lead me and keep me from falling. You carry me close to Your heart. And surely Your goodness and mercy will follow me.

Chris Tomlin

#7. Looking for a word from the Lord? Believe that he has already spoken, and read what he's already written.

Mark Driscoll

#8. When people believe they have a good cause, the violence within them bursts forth unrestrained, as if their good angel has given permission for it to escape.

Fuminori Nakamura

#9. One has to draw upon one's own musical thoughts and one's own musical acumen, and not to be afraid to let that come into one's work. Perhaps that comes with more experience, but perhaps it also comes with daring, and believing that you should.

Jessye Norman

#10. I follow the scent of fading life like hounds rushing toward bodies in shallow graves.

Heather Dearly

#11. 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