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International Association for Greek Philosophy - A non-profit academic, research and cultural Institution formed in 1987 and established by law in 1990. The ICGPC has its seat in Samos (Pythagorion), land of Ionia, which is also the birthplace of philosophy.
When women go wrong, men go right after them. -- Mae West This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises, promotions, and other signs of appreciation. -- Anonymous Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. -- Katharine Hepburn Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. -- Oscar Wilde Philosophy None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it. -- Herman Melville "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Philosophy "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. -- Winston Churchill Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. -- Niels Bohr Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases. -- Anonymous Philosophy "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. -- E. B. White What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours. -- Woody Allen Philosophy A clever man commits no minor blunders. - Goethe "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . . grand Genius is an African who dreams up snow. -- Vladimir Nabokov Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. - Lewis Perelman Philosophy "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution? -- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces. -- Mark Twain Philosophy Work is a four-letter word. -- The Smiths (Morrissey) No other success can compensate for failure in the home. -- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he LDS Church, April, 1964 He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. - H. H. Munro (Saki) "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher Von Braun Philosophy "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Philosophy There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life. -- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Philosophy After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -- Aldous Huxley A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort. -- Sydney Smith In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. -- Douglas Adams Philosophy "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the lev Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Philosophy I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law. -- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do not allow Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch. -- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the House Philosophy Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -- Mother Teresa "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. -- Matt Groening, Love is Hell I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? -- Benjamin Disraeli There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world. -- Antonio Machado Philosophy If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it? -- Albert Einstein Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently. -- Chinese Proverb Philosophy "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. - Lewis Perelman "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. - Mark Twain "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Philosophy Work is a four-letter word. -- The Smiths (Morrissey) If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam. -- Johnny Carson "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Philosophy "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. -- General George Patton Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion. -- George Santayana Philosophy "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Philosophy The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things. -- Jilly Cooper Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married. -- George Bernard Shaw People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000. -- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more. -- Woody Allen Philosophy Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. -- Jim Beggs Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President If we don't change the direction we are going, We are likely to end up where we are heading. -- Chinese saying Philosophy A poem is never finished, only abandoned. -- Paul Valery "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the west. -- Unknown history student A friend is a gift you give yourself. -- Robert Louis Stevenson "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Philosophy Not to anticipate is already to moan. -- Leonardo da Vinci "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. - Lao-Tzu Philosophy
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