Quotes

"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes." - Wittgenstein.

"The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think." - Horace Walpole

“The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land.” Thomas Huxley

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is." - Horace Walpole

"Rome may have been built in a day, but it only took a single trumpet to bring down the walls of Jericho." - Spode

"He'll feel like a Christan scientist with appendicitis." - Tom Lehrer

"To err is human, to forgive divine. Neither is Marine Corp policy." - Bumpersticker

"Remember, Socrates said that to do is to be and Sartre said that to be is to do, but it took Frank Sinatra to say 'do be do be do.'" - Unknown

"Trust, but verify."

"I think we all agree, the past is over." George W. Bush

"So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do." - Benjamin Franklin

"Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone". - Tommy Cooper

"Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself." - Desiderius Erasmus

"“It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing.” - Winston Churchill

"The University of California Statistics Department; where mean is normal, and deviation standard." - Unknown

"Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems." - Henry Adams

"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards." - Aldous Huxley

"The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits." - G.K. Chesterton

1 1 was a race-horse, 2 2 was 1 2. When 1 1 1 1 race, 2 2 1 1 2.

"The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions." - Alfred Adler

"Diese Büronapoleons sind unverwüstlich." Erich Remarque (in Der Weg Zurück).

"Nihil est melius quam vita diligentissima."

"Everyone, in some small sacred sanctuary of the self, is nuts." - Leo Rosten