Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.

A good self-esteem level is mostly dependant on how we value ourselves without any bias.

Stephen Richards

Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.

W. H. Auden

Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural

George Bernard Shaw

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.

William Shakespeare

The Lord is my light, and my salvation; whom shall I fear?

Bible, Psalm 27: 1

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Yeah, my dad bought me a guitar when I was like 10, and I didn't really want it then.

Miranda Lambert

We demand that sex speak the truth [...] and we demand that it tell us our truth, or rather, the deeply buried truth of that truth about ourselves wich we think we possess in our immediate consciousness.

Michel Foucault

Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt.

Scott Adams

The policemen's faces glisten too, they're holding themselves back, they love this, it's a ceremony, they're implementing a policy

Margaret Atwood

We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.

John Searle

LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

Oscar Wilde