How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

~ Thoreau

The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing playthings; he is less duped than his neighbor by his own nature. He judges more sanely, he sees things as they are. It is in this that his liberty consists -- in the ability to see clearly and soberly, in the power of mental record.

~ Henri Amiel

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.

~ St. Thomas Aquinas

Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.

~ Karl Marx

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

- Aristotle

the busy masses...

better late than never.

better late.