-
“Death is the real inspiring genius or Musagetes of philosophy, and for this reason Socrates defined philosophy as thanatou mélétè (preparation for death; Plato, Phaedo, 81a). Indeed, without death there would hardly have been any philosophizing.”
Source : Luce Irigaray (2002). “Between East and West: From Singularity to Community”, p.27, Columbia University Press
-
“A universal love is not only psychologically possible; it is the only complete and final way in which we are able to love.”
-
“I am more modest now, but I still think that one of the pleasantest of all emotions is to know that I, I with my brain and my hands, have nourished my beloved few, that I have concocted a stew or a story, a rarity or a plain dish, to sustain them truly against the hungers of the world.”
Source : M. F. K. Fisher, Joan Reardon (2004). “The Art of Eating”, p.402, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
-
“We live in an unsafe world.”
Source : "It’s Time" by Nia Vardalos, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2011.
-
“Democracy is more than a ballot box.”
-
“[About Francis Baily] The history of the astronomy of the nineteenth century will be incomplete without a catalogue of his labours. He was one of the founders of the Astronomical Society, and his attention to its affairs was as accurate and minute as if it had been a firm of which he was the chief clerk, with expectation of being taken into partnership.”
-
“The best ideas emerge when very different perspectives meet.”
-
“We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.”