Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes

We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.

Edwin Percy Whipple

• Philosopher
• Extravagance
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• Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Never Been

• There is also something called the Legislature. There is something called the press. There is something called people. These are all different players on the stage.

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • People
  • Different
  • Player

• Emotion consists of a very well orchestrated set of alterations in the body that has, as a general purpose, making life more survivable by taking care of a danger, of taking care of an opportunity, either/or, or something in between.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Purpose

• From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Time
  • Generations
  • Nonsense

• There are no Russian units in eastern Ukraine - no special services, no tactical advisors. All this is being done by the local residents, and the proof of that is the fact that those people have literally removed their masks.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • People
  • Done
  • Special

• First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Passages
  • Impediments
  • Own Minds

• I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Mountains
  • Carried
  • Sufferer

• Be who you are, and go the whole way.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Way
  • Being

• More matter with less art.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Art
  • Matter
  • Polonius

• Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Couches
  • Psychiatry
  • Teaching People

• My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in the land of Egypt. I looked on my cherished wishes, yesterday so blooming and glowing; they lay stark, chill, livid corpses that could never revive.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Dead
  • Hopes
  • Doom

• If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Energy
  • Life Is Short
  • Good Book

• Most of all, I love Manchester. The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it in the end. Not the money, not the music, not even the guns. That is my heroic flaw: my excess of civic pride.

  

  TONY Wilson Musician Hot Chocolate
  • Pride
  • Drugs
  • Guns

• There's too many interesting women I have…not had the experience to know in this life because I have been brainwashed.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • Life
  • Women
  • Experience

• Elvis was a major hero of mine. I was probably stupid enough to believe that having the same birthday as him actually meant something.

  

  David Bowie
  • Believe
  • Stupid
  • Majors

• When the intelligent and animal souls are held together in one embrace, they can be kept from separating.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Together
  • Separating
  • Animal Souls

• A common rhetorical strategy of politicians and others is to frame their opponents' views in the worst possible light, tacitly suggesting that all versions of the view must be committed to some particularly deplorable conclusion. Philosophers are not immune to this way of arguing.

  

  Dale Jamieson
  • Common
  • Politician
  • Philosopher

• A pipe is the fountain of contemplation, the source of pleasure, the companion of the wise; and the man who smokes, thinks like a philosopher and acts like a Samaritan.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Pleasure
  • Philosopher
  • Contemplation

• We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.

  

  Edwin Percy Whipple
  • Philosopher
  • Extravagance
  • Declared