Philosophy Quotes

"One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist.....Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist"

- Stephen Hawking

"Fortunately, time-travel does not exist. With it, the human race would try to solve past mistakes in isolation, erase any knowledge gleaned from making them, and create a chain reaction of unforeseen consequences. These could destroy the past, along with the present and future simultaneously. Time itself could become the ultimate weapon of mass destruction."

- Stewart Stafford

"What happens when the unstoppable force meets the immovable object? They surrender."

- Superman

"The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent Agent."

- Isaac Newton

"Crimes spring from fixed ideas."

- Max Stirner

"Just as spring brings life to flowers and the moon moves tides on the shores, nothing is simply chance. Everything happens for a reason. Everything is a routine."

- Simeon Ivanov

"The sweetest honey, is loathsome in his own deliciousness, and in the taste confounds the appetite."

- William Shakespeare

"Honey is a bee's sweat."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"When a bee stings you it is preserving its life, not its honey."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"Life’s a puzzle; enjoy putting it together."

- Hello Kitty

"Hello Kitty will never speak."

- Pico Iyer

"Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they’re really not. They’re companions, the hero and the sidekick."

- Laurence Shames

"Good cheer is no hindrance to a good life."

- Aristippus

"No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of worrying can change the future."

- Umar

"Don’t worry, don’t be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride."

- Bill Hicks

"Most things I worry about never happen anyway."

- Tom Petty

"Please, don’t worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting."

- Robin Williams

"“The law is reason free from passion.”"

- Aristotle

"“Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason…The law, which is perfection of reason.”"

- Sir Edward Coke

"“The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.”"

- Samuel Johnson

"“Possession is nine-tenths of the law.”"

- Lord Mansfield

"“When law and nature collide, nature usually wins.”"

- Forrest Reynolds

"What we need to do is to stop passing laws. We have enough laws now to govern the world for the next 10,000 years. Every crank who has a foolish notion that he would like to impose upon everybody else hastens to some legislative body and demands that it be graven upon the statutes. Every fanatic who wants to control his neighbor’s conduct is here or at some other legislative body demanding that a law be passed to regulate that neighbor’s conduct."

- James A. Reed

"We recognize that stare decisis embodies an important social policy. It represents an element of continuity in law, and is rooted in the psychologic need to satisfy reasonable expectations. But stare decisis is a principle of policy and not a mechanical formula of adherence to the latest decision, however recent and questionable, when such adherence involves collision with a prior doctrine more embracing in its scope, intrinsically sounder, and verified by experience…This Court, unlike the House of Lords, has from the beginning rejected a doctrine of disability at self-correction."

- Felix Frankfurter

"Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; justice is what comes out of a courtroom."

- Clarence Darrow

"Laws should be like clothes. They should fit the people they are meant to serve."

- Clarence Darrow

"The color of justice is green."

- Johnnie Cochran

"The more laws, the less justice."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"True law is right reason in agreement with nature."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"In the grand scheme of life, today’s worry is just a tiny ripple in a vast ocean."