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“At the bottom of philosophy something very true and very desperate whispers: Everyone is hungry all the time. Everyone is starving. Everyone wants so much, much more than they can stomach, but the appetite doesn't converse much with the stomach. Everyone is hungry and not only for food - for comfort and love and excitement and the opposite of being alone. Almost everything awful anyone does is to get those things and keep them.”

Want Doe Philosophy Comfort Opposites And Love Bottom Hungry Awful Excitement Desperate Stomach Appetite Starving Converses Very True

Author:Catherynne M. Valente

“Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.”

Giving Art Philosophy History Comfort Civilization

Book:The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde

“And now it seems she's on my wavelength. That's all I need. My mind isn't much of a comfort to me but at least I thought it was private.”

Needs Mind Art Philosophy Seems History Comfort Wavelength

Book:The Turtle Diary

Source: The Turtle Diary

“[Science] has challenged the super-eminence of religion; it has turned all philosophy out of doors except that which clings to its skirts; it has thrown contempt on all learning that does not depend on it; and it has bribed the skeptics by giving us immense material comforts.”

Giving Doe Philosophy Doors Materials Depends Comfort Thrown Contempt Immense Skirts Skeptic Eminence

Book:Modes and Morals

Source: Modes and Morals

“Philosophy has often attempted to repress insolence by asserting that all conditions are leveled by death; a position which, however it may defect the happy, will seldom afford much comfort to the wretched.”

May Philosophy Death Conditions Position Comfort Defects Wretched Insolence

Book:The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler

Source: The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler

“When men comfort themselves with philosophy, 'tis not because they have got two or three sentences, but because they have digested those sentences, and made them their own: philosophy is nothing but discretion.”

Men Made Two Philosophy Three Comfort Sentences Discretion

Book:Table talk: being the discourses of John Selden, esq

Source: Table talk: being the discourses of John Selden, esq

“The Philosophy of Tea is not mere aestheticism ... for it expresses conjointly with ethics and religion our whole point of view about man and nature. It is hygiene, for it enforces cleanliness; it is economics, for it shows comfort in simplicity rather than in the complex and costly; it is moral geometry, inasmuch as it defines our sense of proportion to the universe.”

Men Philosophy Whole Shows Universe Views Moral Comfort Ethics Economics Mere Complexes Simplicity Point Of View Tea Proportion Geometry Cleanliness Hygiene Man And Nature

Book:The Illustrated Book of Tea

Source: The Illustrated Book of Tea