World/philosophy

Famous quotes containing the words world and/or philosophy:

“The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can’t wake up.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)

“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)