The Meaning of Things Quotes

“Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.”
― A.C. Grayling, The Meaning of Things

“Dripping water wears the stone which could not be hammered.”
― A.C. Grayling, The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life

“It is always a mistake to underestimate how long it takes for mankind to understand the traumas it has suffered, especially the self-inflicted ones.”
― A.C. Grayling, The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life

“Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric”
― A.C. Grayling, The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life

“One day everything will be well, that is our hope,’ said Voltaire; ‘today everything is fine, that is our illusion.”
― A.C. Grayling, The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life

“The best of what we are lies in what we hope to be”
― A.C. Grayling, The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life

“All great truths begin as blasphemies. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW”
― A.C. Grayling, The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life

“Faith is what I die for, dogma is what I kill for,’ as the saying has it; and the trouble is that all faith is based on dogma.”
― A.C. Grayling, The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life

“The rich cannot eat money,’ dryly observes a Russian proverb, ‘so it’s just as well that there are poor folk to grow their food.”
― A.C. Grayling, The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life

“Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. ‘Patriotism’ is its cult. ERICH FROMM”
― A.C. Grayling, The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life

“Per ardua ad astra.”
― A.C. Grayling, The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life

“To lie sleepless with pain at night, or to wake every morning and feel the return of grief, yet to get up and carry on as best one can, is courage itself.”
― A.C. Grayling, The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life

“Govern a family as you would cook a small fish. CHINESE PROVERB”
― A.C. Grayling, The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life

“Art You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW”
― A.C. Grayling, The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life

“The rich man may never get into heaven,’ remarked Alexander Chase, ‘but the poor are already serving their term in hell.”
― A.C. Grayling, The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life

“Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded That all the Apostles would have done as they did. LORD BYRON”
― A.C. Grayling, The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life

“Such melancholy is fitted to the fact that life offers causes for regret, that happiness is not always the point, and that there is enough hardship and struggle to go round, but not enough of the good things; and reflection on these useful insights is a check on thoughtlessness and self-satisfaction – what the Russians expressively call poshlost – which threaten to make one live in banal fashion. So a little depression is good at times, in any season.”
― A.C. Grayling, The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life

“Hatred is a sentiment that leads to the extinction of values. ORTEGA Y GASSET”
― A.C. Grayling, The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life

“Racism is on its deathbed – the question is, how costly will racists make the funeral? MARTIN LUTHER KING”
― A.C. Grayling, The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life

“Goethe had long since remarked that nationalistic feelings ‘are at their strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture’.”
― A.C. Grayling, The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life

“Without doubt, prudence is a virtue. As the Ashanti say, ‘No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.”
― A.C. Grayling, The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life

“Prudence He does well who moors his boat with two anchors. PUBLILIUS SYRUS”
― A.C. Grayling, The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life

“As Ruskin said, it is not what we get but what we become by our endeavours that makes them worthwhile.”
― A.C. Grayling, The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life

“Hope is a virtue independently of its realisations; it is an intrinsic value, an end in itself, allied to courage and imagination, a positive attitude full of possibility and aspiration. For that reason you discover more about a person when you learn about his hopes than when you count his achievements, for the best of what we are lies in what we hope to be.”
― A.C. Grayling, The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life

“Hope is the worst of evils,’ Nietzsche famously said, ‘for it prolongs the torment of man.”
― A.C. Grayling, The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life

“Fear If the diver always thought of the shark, he would never lay hands on the pearl. SA’DI”
― A.C. Grayling, The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life

“The peak of tolerance is most readily achieved by those who are not burdened with convictions. ALEXANDER CHASE”
― A.C. Grayling, The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life

“I to je zapravo sustina proslavljanja Dana sv. Valentina:san o ljubavi. Zivot bi zaista bio gorak kada se san nikada ne bi ostvario ili kada nasa najvaznija zivotna iskustva ljubavi - storge, pragma, ludus, agape - ne bi bila dovoljno trajna i cvsta da nas spasu kad nas zahvati oluja erosa i manije - donoseci nam blazenstvo i ostavljajuci pustos za sobom.”
― A.C. Grayling, The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life

“We find little in a book but what we put there,’ Joseph Joubert said. ‘But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.”
― A.C. Grayling, The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life

“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! THOREAU”
― A.C. Grayling, The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life