Neel Burton Quotes

Of all funny things, truth is the funniest.

Maths is at only one remove from magic.

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.

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

No one ever pays to learn the most important things.

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

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

Drinking turns a fool into a merry fool.

A writer is someone who, needing nothing and no one, wants everything and everyone.

The irony is, nothing is more frightening than being frightened.

Man cannot bear to be in the wrong. As soon as he feels guilt or remorse, he bends his ethics to suit himself. Actions do not flow from ethics, but ethics from actions, and it is by refining our actio...