Philosophy Quotes

"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."

- Bertrand Russell

"Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including and particularly, the coordination between man and time."

- Igor Stravinsky

"Music is a high revelation than all wisdom and philosophy."

- Ludwig van Beethoven

"Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs."

- Edgard Varese

"The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety."

- Felix Mendelssohn

"Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth."

- Charles Ives

"Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life."

- Samuel Ullman

"A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities."

- Herman Melville

"There is the truth about the marathon and very few of you have written the truth. Even if I explain to you, you'll never understand it, you're outside of it."

- Douglas Wakiihuri

"I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress."

- Ronald Reagan

"Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization."

- Victor Hugo

"It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles."

- Muriel Spark

"You can only hold a smile for so long; after that, it's just teeth."

- Chuck Palahniuk

"The living should smile, for the dead cannot."

- George R.R. Martin

"How can you feel bad and smile simultaneously?"

- Maxime Lagacé

"It seems to me that what we call beauty in a face lies in the smile."

- Leo Tolstoy

"A smile doesn't always stand for a perfect life."

- Faraaz Kazi

"An enigmatic smile is worth ten pages of dialog."

- Connie Brockway

"Life is a mirror: If you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting."

- William Makepeace Thackeray

"If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."

- Ronald Reagan

"Safety is never ‘attained’ but a work in progress in tension between ALARP (As Low As Reasonably Practible) and the Precautionary Principle."

- Rob Long

"Safety applies with equal force to the individual, to the family, to the employer, to the state, the nation and to international affairs. Safety, in its widest sense, concerns the happiness, contentment and freedom of mankind."

- William M. Jeffers

"The safety of the people shall be the highest law."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"There is no such thing as an accident, only a failure to recognise the hand of fate."

- Napoleon

"Safety should never be a priority. It should be a precondition."

- Paul O Neill

"Concern for man himself and his safety must always for the chief interest of all technical endeavours."

- Albert Einstein

"Measuring Safety Performance by the number of injuries you have is like measuring parenting by the number of smacks you give."

- Dr. Robert Long

"When safety professionals’ risk tolerance is out of alignment with societal norms the safety professional is doomed to a life of frustration."

- Phil LaDuke

"Safety is the most basic task of all. Without sense of safety, no growth can take place. Without safety, all energy goes to defense."

- Torey L. Hayden

"Safety is never ‘attained’ but a work in progress in tension between ALARP (As Low As Reasonably Practicable) and the Precautionary Principle."

- Rob Long