It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
Jean-Paul SartreWhat is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
Benjamin DisraeliAbsence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.
Theodore RooseveltThe words of truth are always paradoxical.
Lao TzuReligion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaElectrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestations to our senses.
Nikola TeslaI am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Winston ChurchillIntuition and concepts constitute… the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
Immanuel KantI had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
Immanuel KantThere cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
Friedrich NietzscheYou use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
George Bernard Shaw‚Pure experience‘ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
William JamesMen are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
EpictetusThe absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
Albert CamusI have wondered about time all my life.
Stephen HawkingWe should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.
Karl MarxOnly that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
Baruch SpinozaTemperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
AristotleWhat goes up must come down.
Isaac NewtonThere is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Oscar WildeAh, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
Albert CamusInfinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor unequal, nor have any certain proportion one to another, and therefore, the principle that all infinites are equal is a precarious one.
Isaac NewtonGood men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.
Leonardo da VinciTruth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
Francis BaconGod gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
Franz KafkaFree will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.
Charles SpurgeonIf we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.
George EliotPhilosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
Galileo GalileiI am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinI do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Baruch SpinozaDying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.
Woody AllenThere are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
Henry David ThoreauNo evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.
SocratesOne of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.
Christopher HitchensIf we don’t know life, how can we know death?
ConfuciusWho would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?
Anne FrankI make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.
Christopher HitchensA well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaNo one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.
Billy GrahamA weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
Mahatma GandhiThe philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
Brian EnoHow can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinThe end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiWhatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
Marcus AureliusSpiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!
Pope FrancisI were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
William ShakespeareThe ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale CarnegieKnowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Marcus Tullius CiceroNor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
Khalil GibranIf history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
George Bernard ShawNature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
Jean-Jacques RousseauReverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
Albert SchweitzerNever in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?
EpictetusI have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
Mahatma GandhiThought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
David HareOne’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
Eleanor RooseveltFor what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?
Jesus ChristYou’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.
Joe BidenScience without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein