"We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us."

-- Alain de Botton

#Crowds Quotes #Stuff Quotes #Newspapers Quotes

“I thought Marilyn Monroe was the most beautiful woman in the world and Elizabeth Taylor breathtaking. But when I see myself on the screen I say: 'Oh shoot! What are they talking about?'”
“I was born in Belgium and moved to Amsterdam when I was 17. I am not a Calvinist Dutchman but a Catholic Belgian. I think that makes a big difference.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Thomas More: ...And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned around on you--where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast--man's laws, not God's--and if you cut them down...d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.”

Source : A Man for All Seasons act 1 (1960)
“Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.”
“I do think it's well over-time to have a female Doctor Who. I think a gay, black female Doctor Who would be the best of all.”
“Fortunately, the second-to-last bug has just been fixed.”
“I know things are unbearable but in spite of that we have to bear them.”
“We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution.”

Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 61), 1937.

You may also like:

Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosopher
Epicurus
Philosopher
John Armstrong
British writer/philosopher
Malcolm Gladwell
Journalist
Marcel Proust
Novelist
Matt Ridley
Journalist
Michel de Montaigne
Writer
Seneca the Younger
Philosopher
Stendhal
Writer