Neel Burton Quotes

Of all funny things, truth is the funniest.

Maths is at only one remove from magic.

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It is no coincidence that, on all four sides, in all four corners, the borders of the Roman Empire stopped where wine could no longer be made.

Our life is just as long or short as our remembering: as rich as our imagining, as vibrant as our feeling, and as profound as our thinking.

My basic political principle: If something, whether right- or left-wing, is driven by love and solidarity, it is right; if it is driven by hate and fear it is wrong. Simple as that.

In philosophy, phenomenology is the study of the structures of experience and consciousness. Wine blind tasting is the best phenomenology, phenomenology par excellence, returning us from our heads int...

Just as Prometheus delivered stolen fire to man, so Eve, and the serpent, delivered man into self-consciousness, setting him up, were it not for his short lifespan, as rival to God. At the same time,...

Resentment is a powerful and corrosive force, both on the slippery left and the slippery right, and the history of humankind can largely be read as a history of resentment. Aside from a profound philo...

Many things can prolong your life, but only wisdom can save it.

The problem with studying is that it gets in the way of education.

Xenophobia is when you smile at people and they don't smile back.

The three most powerful seasonings are hunger, variety, and gratitude.

One needs to be either more brave or more good, because if courage is lacking goodness can substitute, while cowardice is the deficiency of both.

An artist is someone who, needing nothing and no one, wants everything and everyone.

Drinking turns a fool into a merry fool.

No one ever pays to learn the most important things.

If you say it very softly, with a smile, you can get away with saying almost anything, even the truth.

Love is like chickenpox. It's much worse when it comes late.

Man is mostly a collection of emotions, most of which he would do better not to be feeling.

There are essentially three types of people: those who love life more than they fear it, those who fear life more than they love it, and those who have no clue what I'm talking about.