"The honest ratepayer and his healthy family..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde
The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they would tremble. For Chuang Tsǔ spent his life in preaching the great creed of Inaction, and in pointing out the uselessness of all things.
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“Never buy anything simply because it is expensive.”
“If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.”
“Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.”
More on Philosophy
“I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?' That is a hard question,' said Candide.”
“It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing.”
“To scorn philosophy is truly to philosophize.”