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- I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. — Henry David Thoreau
- There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion. — Charles Caleb Colton
- But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. — George Eliot
- People who decide they came to earth to work, who make work their personal philosophy, are kept very busy. — Constantine Karamanlis
- We are given to the cult of personality; when things go badly we look to some messiah to save us. If by chance we think we have found one, it will not be long before we destroy him. — Constantine Karamanlis