If the pun is the lowest form of wit, quotations may be the lowest form of philosophy. Yet, here I am. B
The unexamined life is not worth living. – Socrates
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. – Voltaire
[especially appropriate in our age of Feaux News and alternative facts]
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. – John Kenneth Galbraith
It is not what we say or feel, that makes us who we are, but what we do. – Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer. – James Thurber
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page. – St. Augustine