"Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are."

-- George Santayana

#Profound Quotes #Doubt Quotes #Criticism Quotes

“Johnny Carson started the jokes about me and Marlin in his monologues.”
“Designers take care of everything around us. Everything that is around us, this table, this chair, this lamp, this pen has been designed. All of these things, everything has been designed by somebody.”
“I want to die young. I think it's awful to get old, and sickness is ugly ...”
“The first colour charts were unsystematic. They were based directly on commercial colour samples. They were still related to Pop Art. In the canvases that followed, the colours were chosen arbitrarily and drawn by chance. Then, 180 tones were mixed according to a given system and drawn by chance to make four variations of 180 tones. But after that the number 180 seemed too arbitrary to me, so I developed a system based on a number of rigorously defined tones and proportions.”
“When I'm on stage, I turn into this rock person. I give everything I have. I sing with emotion, I'm loving it up there, and I think there's a lot of energy. In the same way that I'm open when I speak, I'm that open on stage. I feed off the energy of the audience too, so they're feeling what I'm feeling. And the set up is great - I have two drummers and a bass guy so it's just us four.”
“Because the Scriptures say that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him, we need not conclude that a murderer cannot be saved. He can be if he will come to Christ and receive Him as Savior.”
“Why, I say, that to tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I entirely disclaim it; but I ask you to protect the rights and interests of labour generally in the first place, by allowing no free imports from countries which meet you with countervailing duties; and, in the second place, with respect to agricultural produce, to compensate the soil for the burdens from which other classes are free by an equivalent duty. This is my view of what is called "protection.”
“It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.”

You may also like:

Aristotle
Philosopher
Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosopher
Bertrand Russell
Philosopher
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philologist
Henri Bergson
Philosopher
John Dewey
Philosopher
John Stuart Mill
Philosopher
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist
William James
Philosopher