Jonathan Swift Quotes

Coffee, the sober drink, the mighty nourishment of the brain, which unlike other spirits, heightens purity and lucidity; coffee, which clears the clouds of the imagination and their gloomy weight; which illuminates the reality of things suddenly with the flush of truth.

I love my latte from a cafe and my stovetop percolator. I'd have about three a day when I'm out of competition.

I need a coffee to go with my coffee.

In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running.

Cigarettes and coffee, man, that's a combination.

Coffee. I could smell coffee. Coffee would make everything better.

A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be.

It is a proof of philosophical mediocrity, today, to look for a philosophy.

Strong coffee, much strong coffee, is what awakens me. Coffee gives me warmth, waking, an unusual force and a pain that is not without very great pleasure.

I don’t have the time to devote to circles or covens. I have to fit things in when and where I can, in stolen moments and cups of coffee. Stirring clockwise to conjure. Widdershins to banish. There’s never enough time, and rarely enough caffeine, but I make do with what I have. Besides, cauldrons and pointy hats are overrated. Sometimes I see other customers practicing. Pouring their cream and sugar with studied intent. Stirring with purpose. I add an extra spoonful of sugar to my own coffee for them, to make all of our enchantments sweeter.

Sex might satisfy, food might fuel, love might sustain, but without coffee, what is the point?

Coffee doesn't need a menu, it needs a cup. That's all it needs! Maybe a saucer underneath the cup — that's it.

I don't know where my ideas come from. I will admit, however, that one key ingredient is caffeine. I get a couple cups of coffee into me and weird things just start to happen.

I get a couple cups of coffee into me and weird things just start to happen.

Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink...

I'm not a big drinker, but coffee is important to me.

Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.

Way too much coffee. But if it weren't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever.

The Oriental philosophy approaches easily loftier themes than the modern aspires to; and no wonder if it sometimes prattle about them. It only assigns their due rank respectively to Action and Contemplation, or rather does full justice to the latter. Western philosophers have not conceived of the significance of Contemplation in their sense.

scapegoat, n. I think our top two are: 1. Not enough coffee. 2. Too much coffee.

Philosophy's position with regard to science, which at one time could be designated with the name "theory of knowledge," has been undermined by the movement of philosophical thought itself. Philosophy was dislodged from this position by philosophy.

It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity.

Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.

Where philosophy ends, poetry must commence. There should not be a common point of view, a natural manner of thinking which standsin contrast to art and liberal education, or mere living; that is, one should not conceive of a realm of crudeness beyond the boundaries of education. Every conscious link of an organism should not perceive its limits without a feeling for its unity in relation to the whole. For example, philosophy should not only be contrasted to non-philosophy, but also to poetry.

Of the opinions of philosophy I most gladly embrace those that are most solid, that is to say, most human and most our own; my opinions, in conformity with my conduct, are low and humble.