Quotes by Philosophers - Page 23

[On the virtuous man] "He combines the highest, lowest and middle chords in complete harmony within himself.

Plato

Dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect... and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances.

Abraham Tucker

Why should anyone be so grateful for acceptance unless he doubts that he is acceptable, and why should a young, educated and successful couple have such doubts, if not due to the fact that they cannot accept themselves because they are not themselves.

Erich Fromm

On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness.

Albert Camus

It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good.

Aristotle

Think about rethinking what you're thinking, before speaking the thought you were thinking, and cause unintended consequences for speaking what you probably shouldn't have been thinking.

T.F. Hodge

Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.

Plato

Far from rejecting outright any hierarchy of success or failure, philosophy instead reconfigures the judging process, lending legitimacy to theidea that themainstream value system may unfairly consign some people to disgrace and others to respectability.

Alain de Botton

The female is, as it were, a mutilated male, and the catamenia are semen, only not pure; for there is only one thing they have not in them, the principle of soul.

Aristotle

From the cradle to the grave, joy and pain is the fertilizer for wisdom.

T.F. Hodge

Your original self is worth more than your imitation of someone else.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Why do we shrink from change? What can come into being save by change?

Marcus Aurelius

Know thyself.

Socrates

One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.

Socrates

Jesus, Willard says, “does not call us to do what he did, but to be as he was, permeated with love. Then the doing of what he did and said becomes the natural expression of who we are in him.

Dallas Willard

Some artists benefit less from being interviewed than they do from being left alone.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In the history of history, there has never been someone with your particular genetic make-up or life experiences. This being the case, we have no reference points with which to compare ourselves, and therefore it is futile to attempt to measure yourself relative to others.

Chris Matakas

Pain is the root of knowledge.

Simone Weil

Words tend to bounce off nature as they try to deliver nature's language into the hands of another language foreign to it.

Theodor Adorno

Short prayers with long legs travel far.

Matshona Dhliwayo

- Losing is all that's left, I say.- Losing is all we've got left to lose, you sayThe impossibility of not telling, I cannot do otherwise, one can only tell otherwise, with always the same need to make sense of what you've lost, the need not to lose this feeling of losing, the need to feel yourself not losing this feeling that you are still losing the irreplaceable.

Hélène Cixous

Worthy admonitions cannot fail to inspire us, but what matters is changing ourselves. Reverent advice cannot fail to encourage us, but what matters is acting on it. Encouraged without acting, inspired without changing – there’s nothing to be done for such people.

Confucius

A bad word triggers another in your opponent. Be ready to reap what you plant

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Yes," Mustapha Mond was saying, "that's another item in the cost of stability. It isn't only art that's incompatible with happiness; it's also science. Science is dangerous; we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.

Aldous Huxley

In living this way, we discover new opportunities for comfort and enjoyment. Where the younger person may have tossed and turned throughout a sleepless night, the older man or woman can possibly feel the pleasure that comes from lying on a good mattress, resting one's weary bones and overcharged intellect, whether or not one sleeps throughout the hours of darkness.

Irving Singer

What gives life meaning is a form of rebellion, rebellion against reason, an insistence on believing passionately what we cannot believe rationally. The meaning of life is to be found in passion—romantic passion, religious passion, passion for work and for play, passionate commitments in the face of what reason knows to be meaningless.

Robert C. Solomon

Ideas and opinions are not spontaneously "born" in each individual brain: they have had a centre of formation, or irradiation, of dissemination, of persuasion-a group of men, or a single individual even, which has developed them and presented them in the political form of current reality.

Antonio Gramsci

The loudest preacher in the world is your conscience, the cleverest is wisdom, the rowdiest is passion, the surest is truth, the purest is love, and the highest is God.

Matshona Dhliwayo

In philosophy an individual is becoming himself.

Bernard Lonergan

I was quite depressed two weeks ago when I spent an afternoon at Brentano's Bookshop in New York and was looking at the kind of books most people read. Once you see that you lose all hope.

Friedrich A. Hayek

Overcoming what frightens you the most strengthens you the most.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Who has chosen this kind world for us and why?

Sorin Cerin

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

Partially undermining the manufacturer's ability to assert that its work constituted a meaningful contribution to mankind was the frivolous way in which it went about marketing its products. Grief was the only rational response to the news that an employee had spent three months devising a supermarket promotion based on an offer of free stickers of cartoon characters called the Fimbles. Why had the grown-ups so churlishly abdicated their responsibilities? Were there not more important ambitions to be met before Death showed himself on the horizon in his hooded black cloak, his scythe slung over his shoulder?

Alain de Botton

Through Life Particles, the thoughts in your mind are the seeds of your present and future experiences that will blossom when given enough energy through action with your focused attention.

Ilchi Lee & Seung Heun Lee

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Elbert Hubbard

There is one quality more important than know-how.... This is know-how by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes but what our purposes are to be.

Norbert Weiner

The law is an opinion with a gun.

Stefan Molyneux

Speaking of Newton but also commenting more broadly on education and the Enlightenment: "I have seen a professor of mathematics only because he was great in his vocation, buried like a king who had done well by his subjects.

Voltaire

Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.

Marshall McLuhan

In practice it is death that works soseductively behind the image of its brother, sleep

Friedrich Nietzsche

Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces.

Étienne de La Boétie

The past is one evil less and one memory more.

Elbert Hubbard

Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.

Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

One who cannot leave himself behind on the threshold of the moment and forget the past, who cannot stand on a single point, like a goddess of victory, without fear or giddiness, will never know what happiness is; and, worse still, will never do anything that makes others happy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The heart has its own reasons that reason can't understand.

Voltaire

I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it...but by sitting still, and the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill.

Søren Kierkegaard

The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

Baltasar Gracián

Teach men how to fish, but also teach them how to preserve fish.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The distance between you and the door when you have had enough of your spouse is love.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A wolf can only curse a lion when surrounded by its peers.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Though you can love what you do not master, you cannot master what you do not love.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Those who say that money can’t buy one love make it sound as if love can buy one money.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If soul does not evolve it is dead... even if its body still breathes.

T.F. Hodge

You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.

Nikos Kazantzakis

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Voltaire

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked not be endured with patient resignation.

Bertrand Russell

When Kafka allows a friend to understand that he writes because otherwise he would go mad, he knows that writing is madness already, his madness, a kind of vigilence, unrelated to any wakefulness save sleep's: insomnia. Madness against madness, then. But he believes that he masters the one by abandoning himself to it; the other frightens him, and is his fear; it tears through him, wounds and exalts him. It is as if he had to undergo all the force of an uninterruptable continuity, a tension at the edge of the insupportable which he speaks of with fear and not without a feeling of glory. For glory is the disaster.

Maurice Blanchot

The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.

Rabindranath Tagore

Overrated is order.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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