"See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all."

-- Socrates

#Philosophical Quotes #Rivers Quotes #Sea Quotes

“I'm a huge boxing and mixed martial arts fan.”
“Your father always tries to see the good side of people; to find the excuse. But sometimes there isn't a good side. There isn't an excuse. (Mom - to Lara Lington)”
“Error ... is less an intellectual problem than an existential one - a crisis not in what we know, but in who we are. We hear something of that identity crisis in the questions we ask ourselves in the aftemath of error: What was I thinking? How could I have done that?”

Source : Kathryn Schulz (2010). “Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error”, p.21, Harper Collins
“I remember one winter, when I was about five or six, I spent three days with another boy, tracking a bobcat that had been sighted in another county fifty miles away, but which I was sure had come into our neighborhood.”
“All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.”
“It may be those who do most, dream most.”

Source : Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.52, University of Toronto Press
“The followers of Derrida are pathetic, snuffling in French pockets for bits of pieces of a deconstructive method already massively and coherently presented and with a mature sense of the sacred in Buddhism and Hinduism.”
“In all the more advanced communities the great majority of things are worse done by the intervention of government than the individuals most interested in the matter would do them, or cause them to be done, if left to themselves.”

You may also like:

Aristotle
Philosopher
Democritus
Philosopher
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philologist
Heraclitus
Philosopher
Parmenides
Philosopher
Pericles
Greek Statesman
Plato
Philosopher
Pythagoras
Philosopher
Thales
Philosopher