“How can we reverse the negativity that surrounds being receptive — to love, to someone else’s dreams? What are we supposed to do with this space? Stare down into it? Put flowers in it? Shout out to the less receptive among us that there is nothing wrong with saying what one wants, including love? I…”— Hilton Als, amazon.com
“If you are willing to look at another person’s behavior toward you as a reflection of the state of their relationship with themselves rather than a statement about your value as a person, then you will, over a period of time cease to react at all.”— Yogi Bhajan, amazon.com
“I think that most of us feel like something is missing from our lives. And I wondered then if Knight's journey was to seek it. But life isn't about searching endlessly to find what's missing. It's about learning to live with the missing parts.”— Michael Finkel, amazon.com
“We built pyramids before Donald Trump even knew what architecture was. We taught philosophy and astrology [sic] and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos was born.”— Al Sharpton, amazon.com
“The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.”— Stokely Carmichael, successories.com
“Here's some simple advice: Always be yourself. Never take yourself to seriously. And beware of advice from experts, pigs, and members of Parliament.”— Jim Henson, amazon.com
“I have ever been opposed to banks, - opposed to internal improvements by the general government, - opposed to distribution of public lands among the states, - opposed to taking the power from the hands of the people, - opposed to special monopolies, - opposed to a protective tariff, - opposed to a l…”— Sam Houston, samhoustonmemorialmuseum.com
“I spent the two and one-half months between my meeting with the Art Commission and the beginning of my actual mural work in soaking up impressions of the productive activities of the city. I studied industrial scenes by night as well as by day, making literally thousands of sketches of towering blas…”— Diego Rivera, amazon.com
“The oldest philosophy in the world is conservatism, and I go clear back to the first Greeks....When you say 'radical right' today, I think of these moneymaking ventures by fellows like Pat Robertson and others who are trying to take the Republican Party away from the Republican Party, and make a rel…”— Barry Goldwater, washingtonpost.com
“To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.”— Ludwig Wittgenstein, amazon.com
“Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.”— Ludwig Wittgenstein, amazon.com
“It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.”— Ludwig Wittgenstein, amazon.com
“Maybe one of the most heartening findings from the psychology of pleasure is there’s more to looking good than your physical appearance. If you like somebody, they look better to you. This is why spouses in happy marriages tend to think that their husband or wife looks much better than anyone else t…”— Paul Bloom, ted.com
“The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.com
“Philosophy … is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions.”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.com