Liam Gibson > Liam's Quotes

“It is preferable not to travel with a dead man.”
― Henri Michaux

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”
― Blaise Pascal

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“Cogito ergo sum. (I think, therefore I am.)”
― René Descartes

“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in the way in which our visual field has no limits.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“Imagine not being able to distinguish the real cause from that without which the cause would not be able to act as a cause.”
― Plato, Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo

“There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.”
― Plato, Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo

“I am better off than he is,—for he knows nothing, and thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know.”
― Plato, Five Dialogues