A Kind of Spritual Snobbery

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It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. – Albert Camus




Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means. – Van Wyck Brooks



To have money is to be virtuous, honest, beautiful and witty. And to be without is to be ugly and boring and stupid and useless. – Jean Giradoux



When you're down and out something always turns up – and it’s usually the noses of your friends. – Orson Welles



When a man says money can do everything, that settles it; he hasn’t any – Edgar Watson Howe



A deficit is what you have when you haven’t got as much as you had when you had nothing. – Gerald F. Liberman

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Once the People Begin to Reason - All is Lost

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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. – Oscar Wilde

The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people meaner. – Karl Kraus

Once the people begin to reason, all is lost. – Voltaire

The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants. – Georoge Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel

Pessimist: one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. – Oscar Wilde

If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants. – Nietzsche

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. – Albert Camus

Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others. – Oscar Wilde

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