Dooley’s most recent Quotables

He was destined to learn his own wisdom apart from others or to learn the wisdom of others himself wandering among the snares of the world.

men establish and confirm their daily life of routine and habit everywhere, which is still built on purely illusionary foundations.

To a philosopher all as is it is called, is gossip

Our life is frittered away by detail.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.

All poets and heroes..... emit their music at sunrise.

Sometimes they[Philosophers] succeed in breaking free of the prevailing ideology, more often they become its most sophisticated defenders.

Let our labour not be in vain and without result, nor the result unworthy of our labour.

he lives as though he were lent to himself and bound to return the load on demand without complaint

In any situation in life you will find delights and relaxations and pleasures if you are prepared to make light of your troubles and not let them distress you.

The mass of books burden the student without instructing him, and it is far better to devote yourself to a few authors than to get lost among many

aim to acquire our riches from ourselves rather than from Fortune.

How much happier is the man who owes nothing to anybody except the one he can most easily refuse, himself!

What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war. Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for.

Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage.

We like lists because we don't want to die.

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant, but also make pleasant things more pleasant.