Philosophy Quotes

"Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great."

- Edward Abbey

"The mother of the dance is the melody because she gives you everything, tells you everything you need to know, like a mother. The father of the dance is the rhythm and he is the strong one, the leader, the authority ? as a father should be!"

- Tayyar Akdeniz

"You could argue that you made a rational decision to try your first few drinks. I won’t argue with that. But supposing a confidence trickster had persuaded you to buy shares in a company that didn’t exist."

- Allen Carr

"I sometimes think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability."

- Oscar Wilde

"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives."

- Abba Eban

"Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor."

- Sholom Aleichem

"I don’t believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It’s a mean thing, life."

- George Clooney

"It's all make believe, isn't it?"

- Marilyn Monroe

"If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master."

- Michelangelo

"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people live."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Immortality … a fate worse than death."

- Edgar A. Shoaff

"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it."

- Mark Twain

"The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power—and that all too often seeks to explain, to those who do not, the ultimate wisdom and justness of their condition. But that’s not all the law is. The law is also memory; the law also records a long-running conversation, a nation arguing with its conscience."

- Barack Obama

"It is the lawyers who run our civilization for us — our governments, our business, our private lives. Most legislators are lawyers; they make our laws. Most presidents, governors, commissioners, along with their advisers and brain-trusters are lawyers; they administer our laws. All the judges are lawyers; they interpret and enforce our laws. There is no separation of powers where the lawyers are concerned. There is only a concentration of all government power — in the lawyers."

- Fred Rodell

""Justice is incidental to law and order""

- J. Edgar Hoover

""The law is reason, free from passion.""

- Aristotle

""Law and justice are not always the same.""

- Gloria Steinem

""It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.""

- Earl Warren

""True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.""

- Jonathan Sacks

""At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.""

- Aristotle

""The more laws, the less justice.""

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

""The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.""

- Jeremy Bentham

"Truth? But truth is in the eye of the beholder."

- Scar

"Two things define you: 1. Your patience when you have nothing. 2. Your attitude when you have everything."

- Imam Ali

"Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life."

- Steve Jobs

"Education must not simply teach work; it must teach life."

- W.E.B. Du Bois

"A man there was, and they called him mad; the more he gave, the more he had."

- John Bunyan

"Thanks to Barbie, all problems of feminism have been solved."

""The future is in the past.""

"The most successful coaches understand that wrestling is not just a sport; it's a school of life."