Philosophy Quotes

"Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit. "

- Brooks Atkinson

"The cruising life isn’t for all of us. It isn’t even for most of us, but it is for some of us, and for a few of us it is essential to survival."

- Jim Trefethen

"The sea was not meant to be controlled. The sea was meant to be sailed."

- Jon Acuff

"The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect."

- Carl Sandburg

"The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness."

- Joseph Conrad

"How inappropriate it is to call this planet Earth, when clearly it is Sea."

- Arthur C. Clarke

"Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast."

- William Penn

"Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima."

- Pablo Picasso

"If men were angels, no government would be necessary."

- James Madison

"The propriety of a law, in a constitutional light, must always be determined by the nature of the powers upon which it is founded."

- Alexander Hamilton

"Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."

- Ben Franklin

"It seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force."

- Alexander Hamilton

"What does it mean to be human?"

- Will Smith

"If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there."

- Lewis Carroll

"We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror."

- Marshall McLuhan

"Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window."

- Peter Drucker

"Life is too short for traffic."

- Dan Bellack

"Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated."

- Jean Baudrillard

"The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man."

- Marshall McLuhan

"The car is the closest thing we will ever create to something that is alive."

- Sir William Lyons

"Money may not buy happiness, but I’d rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus."

- Françoise Sagan

"How shall we explain to them the meaning of democracy if the same Congress that voted for war to make the world safe for democracy refuses to give this small measure of democracy to the women of our country?"

- Jeannette Rankin

"All the great groups that stood about the Cross represent in one way or another the great historical truth of the time; that the world could not save itself. Man could do no more. Rome and Jerusalem and Athens and everything else were going down like a sea turned into a slow cataract. Externally indeed the ancient world was still at its strongest; it is always at that moment that the inmost weakness begins. But in order to understand that weakness we must repeat what has been said more than once; that it was not the weakness of a thing originally weak. It was emphatically the strength of the world that was turned to weakness and the wisdom of the world that was turned to folly. In this story of Good Friday it is the best things in the world that are at their worst. That is what really shows us the world at its worst. It was, for instance, the priests of a true monotheism and the soldiers of an international civilisation. Rome, the legend, founded upon fallen Troy and triumphant over fallen Carthage, had stood for a heroism which was the nearest that any pagan ever came to chivalry. Rome had defended the household gods and the human decencies against the ogres of Africa and the hermaphrodite monstrosities of Greece. But in the lightning flash of this incident, we see great Rome, the imperial republic, going downward under her Lucretian doom. Scepticism has eaten away even the confident sanity of the conquerors of the world. He who is enthroned to say what is justice can only ask: ‘What is truth?’ So in that drama which decided the whole fate of antiquity, one of the central figures is fixed in what seems the reverse of his true role. Rome was almost another name for responsibility. Yet he stands for ever as a sort of rocking statue of the irresponsible. Man could do no more. Even the practical had become the impracticable. Standing between the pillars of his own judgement-seat, a Roman had washed his hands of the world."

- G.K. Chesterton

"Non nobis solum nati sumus. ( Not for ourselves alone are we born.)"

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know."

- W. H. Auden

"True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind."

- Kevin Gates

"I would love to give you the perfect formula for success after high school. Unfortunately, there isn't one!"

"The journey is the destination - senior night edition"

"Life is too short to drive a boring car."

"It’s not about the destination, it’s about the ride."