Famous quotes containing the words intention and/or philosophy:
“The intention of cheating no one lays us open to being cheated ourselves.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“While you’re playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely dense person. But just begin a conversation with him about something inedible, politics or science, for instance, and he ends up in a deadend or starts in on such an obtuse and base philosophy that you can only wave your hand and leave.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)