The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics.

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.

The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics.

The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.

I think that a good Left is a party that always thinks about the future and doesn't care much about our past sins.

I think you can have a Left that isn't culturally conservative talking about lunch-bucket issues.

Well, what there ought to be is an international labor organization, a confederation of the trade unions of all the countries speaking for the workers who are competing with one another, and talking about the difference in wage levels between, say, Europe and Indonesia.

Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe and makes one immune to enthusiasm.

A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well is the chief instrument of cultural change.

And rather than hide that, I would rather put that out on the radio and let someone see the full range of emotions. If you're going to be strong on the radio, you got to let it all out, even the ugly stuff. And you can't apologize for it.

What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.

The 2000 election exposed some ugly history in our country.

I got sick and tired of my lady wearing ugly underwear to bed, so I turned to the Internet.

When people screamed novelty the first time around talking about an ugly video and stuff I was really insulted because, hold on a minute, everyone you see in the video are real life.

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

It never got ugly, although it got a bit strange at times.

You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.

There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.

My swing is no uglier than Arnold Palmer's, and it's the same ugly swing every time.

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They don't like to see an ugly lady.

I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?

The growing tide of anti-Semitism shocks the conscious of everyone who values freedom, and the ugly, hateful acts particularly stain the character of democracies where liberty and religious freedom are supposed to be respected.

My sisters said, Why do you make those faces? You make yourself so ugly.

Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense.

I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn't been kind to us; but, with the help of God, we will prevail.

Tammy Faye said, I am so happy that Jessica Hahn is so ugly, because now I don't feel so bad.

New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else.

Yeah, I know I'm ugly... I said to a bartender, 'Make me a zombie.' He said 'God beat me to it.'

I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.

I stayed away from mirrors when I was younger and I didn't like having my picture taken. I was tall and had braces and felt ugly.

I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?

But I always like to play ugly people who think they're pretty.

The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.

When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.

The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.

There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still.

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly.

As long as ugly people are not on TV, you should only ever have interesting people on TV.

The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with.