Philosophy Quote by Abraham Lincoln — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.”

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”

“Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”

“Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”

“I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.”

“Marianne replaces the yogurt pot in the freezer now and asks Joanna if she finds it strange, to be paid for her hours at work - to exchange, in other words, blocks of her extremely limited time on this earth for the human invention known as money.”

“Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.”

“Calling sex by its name thereafter [the 17th c.] became more difficult and more costly. As if in order to gain mastery of it in reality, it had first been necessary to subjugate it at the level of language, control its free circulation in speech, expunge it from the things that were said, and extinguish the words that rendered it too visibly present.”

“I mean really, how could an artistic individual stay grounded in the nitty-gritty of how many minutes per pound meat has to stay in the oven when trying to fathom the creative philosophy behind the greatest artistic minds of the world?”

“Consider the following sequence of cases, which we shall call the Tale of the Slave, and imagine it is about you.”