Philosophical Quotes

« Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. »
Wittgenstein


« There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it. »
Cicero


« It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing. »
Seneca


« I never admire another’s fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own. »
Cicero


« He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. »
Nietzsche


« The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool. »
Epicurus


« Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude. »
Schopenhauer


« Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed. »
Karl Marx


« Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. »
Plato


« Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason. »
Saint Thomas Aquinas


« In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. »
Aristotle


« It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth. »
John Locke


« Nature abhors annihilation. »
Cicero



« Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well. »
Rousseau

« When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die. »
Sartre


« Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. »
Confucius


« For men are not equal: thus speaks justice. »
Nietzsche



« Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly. »
Epictetus



« The sinews of war are infinite money. »
Cicero


« In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power. »
Cicero


« The law always limits every power it gives. »
David Hume


« The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin. »
Seneca

« Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it. »
David Hume


« Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods. »
Confucius


« Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak. »
Cicero


« Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior. »
Socrates



« Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. »
Plato



« Be content to seem what you really are. »
Marcus Aurelius


« How many are the things I can do without! »
Socrates



« Peace is a natural effect of trade. »
Montesquieu


« The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. »
Aristotle


« Thrift is of great revenue. »
Cicero



« Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself. »
Seneca



« It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. »
Epictetus


« Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason. »
Kant



« When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die. »
Sartre



« For men are not equal: thus speaks justice. »
Nietzsche



« True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. »
Seneca


« We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. »
Aristotle



« Your life is what your thoughts make it. »
Marcus Aurelius




« How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long? »
Rousseau



« Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands. »
Kant

 

« That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget. »
Sartre



« Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. »
Saint Augustine



« Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause. »
Spinoza


« No untroubled day has ever dawned for me. »
Seneca



« Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet. »
Saint Augustine



« Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. »
Plato



« It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. »
Aristotle








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