Quotes by Philosophers - Page 51

I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself

Simone de Beauvoir

It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have 'something worth fighting for' they do not feel like fighting.

Eric Hoffer

Continuity in everything is unpleasant.

Blaise Pascal

Equilibrium is the state of death, only chaos produces lifeThe Ancient Greeks have been driven to extinction by too much search for architectural harmony.

Stéphane Lupasco

If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself I reply: Because I have been wrong once or oftener I do not aspire to be always wrong.

Vauvenargues

When dealing with two faced people, it is difficult to know which face is uglier, the real one or the manufactured one.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

G.K. Chesterton

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past according to his interest in the present.

George Santayana

One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.

Aristotle

Lust and force are the source of all our actions lust causes voluntary actions force involuntary ones.

Blaise Pascal

In certain diseased conditions consciousness is a mere spark, without memory of the past or thought of the future, and with the present narrowed down to some one simple emotion or sensation of the body.

William James

Choosing beliefs freely is not what rational minds do.

Sam Harris

For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.The more you look the more you see.

Robert M. Pirsig

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man, but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Thomas Carlyle

To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.

Syrus

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must like men undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Thomas Paine

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour germinates no more.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

He who will not economize will have to agonize.

Confucius

The greater your inner light the brighter your outer world.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The writers against religion whilst they oppose every system are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.

Edmund Burke

In love there are two evils: war and peace.

Horace

Politicians are a breed of the human race who believe they know everything

Bangambiki Habyarimana

So like a forgotten fire a childhood can always flare up again within us.

Gaston Bachelard

No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection.

Vauvenargues

Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.

Criss Jami

The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive.

George Santayana

Learning is intelligence.Knowing is understanding.Practicing is wisdom.Teaching is virtue.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Some women would not have contracted an STD or STDs had they not been on the pill.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

One who has great love has great power.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Clear skies do not promise rain.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A thief is one who insists on sharing his victimhood.

Criss Jami

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Women are the best thieves you will ever meet; they steal your heart and your last name, but never get to spend the night in jail.

Matshona Dhliwayo

He liked to think of himself as a merciless vivisector probing into the palpitating entrails of his own soul.

Aldous Huxley

Men have become the tools of their tools.

Henry David Thoreau

Women are like shadows; when you chase them, they run from you; when you run from them, they chase you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

As far as you can, get into the habit of asking yourself in relation to any action taken by another: "What is his point of reference here?" But begin with yourself: examine yourself first.

Marcus Aurelius

The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed, my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, till philosophers become rulers in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.” ― Plato, Plato's Republic

Plato

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

The most popular form of atheism is a philosophy called naturalism. Naturalism is the view that science and science alone determines what exists. What exists is what our best scientific theories of the world require. If something is not required by our best scientific theories of the world, then it does not exist. But this is devastating for ethics because moral values are not required by science. Science is morally neutral. You cannot find moral values in a test tube. So it follows immediately, from the perspective of naturalism, that moral values do not really exist. They are just subjective illusions of human beings.

William Lane Craig

Through Jiu Jitsu I have developed many of the most meaningful relationships in my life, and if that were the only benefit of my practice, Jiu Jitsu would still be the best endeavor I have ever undertaken.

Chris Matakas

To appreciate life's small moments, it helps to have a sense the whole can never be made perfect.

Alain de Botton

Modern man has lost the sense of wonderabout the unknown and he treats it asan enemy.

Laurens van der Post

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

Voltaire

...It is necessary for the average citizen, if he wishes to make a living, to avoid incurring the hostility of certain big men. And these big men have an outlook - religious, moral, and political - with which they expect their employees to agree, at least outwardly.

Bertrand Russell

Nothing is more usual than for philosophers to encroach upon the province of grammarians; and to engage in disputes of words, while they imagine that they are handling controversies of the deepest importance and concern.

David Hume

The artist is the closest man comes to being God.

Leonard Peikoff

Science began with a gadget and a trick. The gadget was the wheel; the trick was fire. We have come a long way from the two-wheel cart to the round-the-world transport plane, or from the sparking flint to man-made nuclear fission. Yet I wonder whether the inhabitants of Hiroshima were more aware of the evolution of science than ancient man facing an on-storming battle chariot.It isn't physics that will make this a better life, nor chemistry, nor sociology. Physics may be used to atom-bomb a nation and chemistry may be used to poison a city and sociology has been used to drive people and classes against classes. Science is only an instrument, no more than a stick or fire or water that can be used to lean on or light or refresh, and also can be used to flail or burn or drown. Knowledge without morals is a beast on the loose.

Dagobert D. Runes

The game of History is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

Eric Hoffer

In a crowd do not lose your individuality, and in your individuality do not lose the crowd.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courting is an activity where a man and a woman flaunt their virtues. Dating is an activity where life exposes the other’s vices.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.

Martin Heidegger

All a man can see while looking at the sky are cosmic fossils of thousands and millions of years ago. The only thing an astrologer can predict, is the past.

Jostein Gaarder

Everyone without exception is searching for happiness.

Blaise Pascal

It takes all of our life to learn how to live, and – something that may surprise you more – it takes just as long to learn how to die.

Seneca

If we seek the truth without realizing how far we are from it, we will be dogmatists. If we realize how far we are from the truth but do not seek it, we will be skeptics. If we both seek the truth and realize how far we are from it, we will be wise.

Peter Kreeft

Don't look for Mrs. Right if all your character demonstrates is you are Mr. Wrong.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Unsettling are the days in which everyone is an expert.

Criss Jami

Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

Marcus Aurelius

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