“Well begun is half done.” InspirationalWellsDoneActionHalfPhilosophicalPerseveranceSelf DisciplineFortune Cookie Book:Politics Source: Politics
“Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.” PhilosophyHalfOughtPhilosophicalAwake Author:William James
“I was occupied by a range of questions, often different from those fashionable in the professional philosophy of the past half century, that have sometimes troubled philosophers in the past. It's taken me several decades to work out my own philosophical agenda, and it is wide.” DifferentSometimesPhilosophyPastMy OwnHalfTakenCenturyPhilosophicalPhilosopherWork OutWideDecadesRangeAgendasFashionable Author:Philip Kitcher
“Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.” HalfPhilosophicalParisLunchOther HalfSupperEiffel Tower Author:Baron de Montesquieu
“Henry's universe was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest philosophical and scientific ideas all but drowned a small jigger of immediate experience, most of it strictly sexual. Broken reeds are seldom good mixers. They're far too busy with their ideas, their sensuality and their psychosomatic complaints to be able to take an interest in other people - even their own wives and children. They live in a state of the most profound voluntary ignorance, not knowing anything about anybody, but abounding in preconceived opinions about everything.” PeopleChildrenIdeasStatesAbleUniverseInterestHalfOpinionKnowingWifeIgnoranceBrokenPhilosophicalProfoundBusySensualityNot KnowingComplaintsMixturesToo BusyReedsPintsInterest In Others Book:Great Short Works of Aldous Huxley Source: Great Short Works of Aldous Huxley
“One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.” InspirationalSaidProblemWaterHalfOne DayEmptyPhilosophicalGlassesDrankHalf FullHalf Empty Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky
“Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is philosophical, that of a half-civilized people is poetical.” PeopleFirstsStatesPurposeIndividualLanguageNationsTermHalfParticularPoetMachinesPhilosophicalPerceiveAbstractEnlightenedCivilizedVocabularyEnlightened Society Author:Thomas B. Macaulay