1363 quotes
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
Henry AdamsEthics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
Bertrand RussellLife levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
George Bernard ShawWhat is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
Friedrich NietzscheEvery man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?
Jean-Jacques RousseauNor 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 GibranRegarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
Friedrich NietzscheSuch as we are made of, such we be.
William ShakespeareThe heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
Blaise PascalThe lie is a condition of life.
Friedrich NietzscheThings in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.
Joyce MeyerIt is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
Samuel JohnsonWe hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.
Friedrich NietzscheDepend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.
Samuel JohnsonUnbeing dead isn’t being alive.
E. E. CummingsWhat is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinI have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still in a room.
Blaise PascalThe paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
Gilbert K. ChestertonReligion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
Karl MarxGod is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
Friedrich NietzscheCertain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhen a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
Friedrich NietzscheLight thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
Terry PratchettI do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac NewtonEach piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.
Richard P. FeynmanNo man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
Khalil GibranWell, the future for me is already a thing of the past.
Bob DylanSkepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
Napoleon BonaparteMan is a universe within himself.
Bob MarleyOnly that day dawns to which we are awake.
Henry David ThoreauMystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
Friedrich NietzscheIt’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
Virginia WoolfIt has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
Bertrand RussellWords are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
Friedrich NietzscheMan’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
Blaise PascalPuritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
H. L. MenckenDeath does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
EpicurusI argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
Emily DickinsonPoets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?
Richard P. FeynmanThose who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
Jean-Jacques RousseauThe formula ‚Two and two make five‘ is not without its attractions.
Fyodor DostoevskyWhat we live by we die by.
Robert FrostMen’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
Karl MarxEven a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Joseph AddisonWhat goes up must come down.
Isaac NewtonThe desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.
Friedrich NietzscheMy philosophy is, it’s always very rewarding when you can make an audience laugh. I don’t mind making fun of myself. I like self-deprecating comedy. But I’d like you to laugh with me occasionally, too.
Dwayne JohnsonI can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
John D. RockefellerThe eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
Virginia WoolfWe choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Khalil GibranForever is composed of nows.
Emily DickinsonMorality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
Friedrich NietzscheIf men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
Baruch SpinozaTruth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Isaac NewtonWe shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.
Henry David ThoreauIf two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
Lyndon B. JohnsonAt the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that.
BonoThe abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
Friedrich NietzscheI am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.
Bob Dylan