Top 1200 French Philosopher Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

It's normal that people expect more from the French team.

Really, creation and innovation are part of the French DNA.

It was Schopenhauer who made me a philosopher. Real philosophy, I told my appalled colleagues at Auckland, is about sex, death, and boredom. Since then I have expanded my horizons, but I have always retained an affection for the sage of Frankfurt.

The word Chivalry is derived from the French cheval, a horse.

This man has conquered the world! What have you done?" The philosopher replied without an instant's hesitation, "I have conquered the need to conquer the world.

In France cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. I think the French enjoy the complication of the art form and the cooking for cooking's sake. You can talk with a concierge or police officer about food in France as a general rule. It is not the general rule here. Classical cuisine, which I hope we are going back to, means certain ways of doing things and certain ways of not doing things. If you know classical French cooking you can do anything. If you don't know the basics, you turn out slop.

To say that I won the French Open, it's something completely crazy.

Talk about polygamy! There is no true philosopher on the face of the earth but what will admit that such a system, properly carried out according to the order of heaven, is far superior to monogamy for the raising of healthy, robust children!

French citizenship should be either inherited or merited.

You have to adjust to where you are but the French are all together - the guys and the women. It's good.

I think that in France, we should do like the French people.

I was introduced to Mr. Davy, who has rooms adjoining mine (in the Royal Institution); he is a very agreeable and intelligent young man, and we have interesting conversation in an evening; the principal failing in his character as a philosopher is that he does not smoke.

The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal.

French elegance lies in the balance of romance and restraint.

The French would eat anything that couldn't outrun them.

He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.

You never see a French person eating alone.

Entrepreneur is just French for 'has ideas, does them'.

The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.

Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the prime initiative today.

I love the breakfast culture - I opt for the French platter.

Stripes are very French - who doesn't love a good stripe?

Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age.

The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.

As long as I have the talent and there's a demand for the old Chinese man - whether he's a philosopher, or a master, or an old-time restaurant owner, or a villain, or a so-called good guy - I will always be working.

The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]

I'm going to gather all the French people who want change.

I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not a great mind, he's not a great thinker, he's not a great philosopher, he's a story-teller.

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.

'Escargot' is French for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm'.

I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into Lead.

Almost anything is edible with a dab of French mustard on it.

The French don't seek out alliances except when there are difficulties.

I studied French and English literature because I liked it.

No matter what their background, the southern French are fascinated by food.

Because there'd be two languages I couldn't speak, French and English.

I grew up watching a lot of French cinema.

Manbags are only acceptable if you are Italian, French, or gay.

I have no relationship to the French bourgeoisie. I don't like connecting with them.

The French want less Europe and more France.

I can do whatever I want, but I'm a French girl. It goes with everything.

But, though French, she was also very brave.

All my life, I have juggled two cultures: Senegalese and French.

He raged for hours. And the skeleton, ever the frail and solelmn philosopher, hung quietly inside, saying not a word, suspended like a delicate insect within a chrysalis, waiting and waiting.

Don't feel embarrassed if you've never heard of William Lane Craig. He parades himself as a philosopher, but none of the professors of philosophy whom I consulted had heard his name, either.

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. "The Mad Philosopher," 1697

Have you met the French? My...GOD they know how to party!

The French are useless. They can't organize a piss-up in a brewery.

If you're French, you definitely have to respect Tony Parker for what he did.

Sydney Smith playfully says that common sense was invented by Socrates, that philosopher having been one of its most conspicuous exemplars in conducting the contest of practical sagacity against stupid prejudice and illusory beliefs.

French sounds flat. In English, you can play with pitch.

The word "Chivalry" is derived from the French Cheval, a horse.

The French nation is more important than football.

L'Etoile, in Soho, is the best French restaurant in London.

There would probably be less of a frenzy among the French public.

A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one nor the other.

Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this exasperated line from the Greek stoic philosopher Epictetus: 'You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not.

Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!

Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.

Nothing could be more French than pastry.