Benedict Spinoza
Men are deceived if they think themselves free, an opinion which consists only in this, that they are conscious of their actions and ignorant of the causes by which they are determined.
Ethics
Albert Einstein
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
News Chronicle, 14/03/1949
H. L. Mencken
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
Chrestomathy
C. S. Lewis
It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.
Mere Christianity
Dermot Moran
Sartre took courses in philosophy and psychology, and was known as a voracious reader, a prankster, a composer of bawdy lyrics, and as something of a boxer. He was small and ugly, but exceptionally strong.
Introduction to Phenomenology
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