"If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers."

-- Frederick The Great

#Philosopher Quotes

“Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.”
“Some days you just want to get dressed and go about your business. But if you're a woman, you can't, because there is no unmarked woman.”
“I believe in the curative powers of love as the English believe in tea or Catholics believe in the Miracle of Lourdes.”

Source : Joyce Johnson (1990). “Minor Characters”, Washington Square Pr
“I still get butterflies when I'm doing a runway show. The music starts, you're wearing these gorgeous clothes and your nervous about your high heels, if your shoes are going to break, if your going to slip or do something wrong.”
“There are many ways to make the death rate increase.”
“The producer beating a new path for himself through the wilderness is going to do the thing 'differently,' of course. But after a while, he looks about him. The territory is unfamiliar, the forest ahead forbidding. Just how 'different' dare he be? He looks at his resources, and then at the established successes of the past. He suddenly realizes he must play safe, be sure. The unknown is a gamble; the known isn't-at least comparatively. The safest plan, obviously, is to follow the trailblazers. So he produces an imitation of one of the current successes. Usually it is a mediocre imitation.”
“Nobody within motorcycling has or deserves any respect.”
“Sometimes, I think the things we see are shadows of the things to be; that what we plan we build”

Source : Phoebe Cary (1882). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”

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