- Feed http://quotationsbook.com/ Quotations Book Search <![CDATA[I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28231/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28231/ <![CDATA[If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/36813/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/36813/ <![CDATA[In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/36826/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/36826/ <![CDATA[One can acquire everything in solitude except character.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/36840/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/36840/ <![CDATA[To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/36823/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/36823/ <![CDATA[The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/36811/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/36811/ <![CDATA[I have never found a companion so companionable as solitude.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/36843/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/36843/ <![CDATA[Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/23142/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/23142/ <![CDATA[Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/22173/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/22173/ <![CDATA[The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/130/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/130/ <![CDATA[Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42028/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42028/ <![CDATA[The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15275/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15275/ <![CDATA[War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/3776/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/3776/ <![CDATA[Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/35182/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/35182/ <![CDATA[Desire to know why, and how -- curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge -- exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/9531/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/9531/ <![CDATA[Curiosity is the lust of the mind.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/9530/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/9530/ <![CDATA[Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/41602/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/41602/ <![CDATA[The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4480/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4480/ <![CDATA[The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/35340/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/35340/ <![CDATA[To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19333/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19333/ <![CDATA[The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29799/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29799/ <![CDATA[The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29808/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29808/ <![CDATA[The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/31074/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/31074/ <![CDATA[Charm is the ability to make someone think that both of you are quite wonderful.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/6178/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/6178/ <![CDATA[Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/6161/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/6161/ <![CDATA[Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/6159/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/6159/ <![CDATA[Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/6162/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/6162/ <![CDATA[Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29241/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29241/ <![CDATA[The minute you start talking about what your going to do if you lose, you have lost.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/24319/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/24319/ <![CDATA[Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/30225/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/30225/ <![CDATA[Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/30217/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/30217/ <![CDATA[Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy, or at least your thoughts should be noisy and colorful and lively.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/30216/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/30216/ <![CDATA[Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/30208/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/30208/ <![CDATA[Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/37120/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/37120/ <![CDATA[There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought --a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/24264/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/24264/ <![CDATA[Of my friends I am the only one left.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/24261/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/24261/ <![CDATA[All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/24249/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/24249/ <![CDATA[The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4976/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4976/ <![CDATA[Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/30229/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/30229/ <![CDATA[Dogs come when they are called; cats take a message and get back to you.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/5369/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/5369/