Quotes of Ism - somelinesforyou

“ All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny. ”

- Edward Bulwer Lytton

“ I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it. ”

- Karl Marx

“ Philosophy is for the few. ”

- William Gilbert

“ There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophies. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot. ”

- Edgar Quinet

“ Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them. ”

- Plato

“ Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny. ”

- Edward Bulwer Lytton

“ The only "ism" Hollywood believes in is plagiarism. ”

- Dorothy Parker

“ I think; therefore I am. ”

- Rene Descartes

“ The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands. ”

- John L. Lewis

“ Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies. ”

- Thomas Love Peacock

“ A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines. ”

- Simone Weil

“ The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is, like class feeling, patriotism, save-your-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom. ”

- Thomas Hardy
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