Philosophers quotes

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life. ~ Plato 



If we don't know life, how can we know death? ~ Confucius


Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie. ~ Wittgenstein





For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him. ~ Karl Marx


It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. ~ Aristotle



One man excels in eloquence, another in arms. ~ Virgil



Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. ~ Cicero




Laws are silent in time of war. ~ Cicero


So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you. ~ Seneca



If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher. ~ Socrates

 


You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself. ~ Seneca



They can because they think they can. ~ Virgil



The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. ~ Aristotle



It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. ~ Machiavelli



If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company. ~ Sartre



Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason. ~ Kant



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

Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways. ~ Plato 
 
 

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess. ~ Seneca





Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver. ~ William James