1363 quotes
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Henry David ThoreauAll truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?
Friedrich NietzscheA perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard ShawWe occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Winston ChurchillNothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
Friedrich NietzscheNature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
Blaise PascalIf you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.
Fyodor DostoevskyIn everything one thing is impossible: rationality.
Friedrich NietzscheArt, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.
Julius CaesarYou’re born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there’s a loophole.
Billy GrahamBelief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Blaise PascalI do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Baruch SpinozaThe point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
Bertrand RussellI still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.
Friedrich NietzscheNone are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTo every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
Isaac NewtonThere are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.
Friedrich NietzscheThe first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
Karl MarxMankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Thomas JeffersonEverything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
Martin Luther King, Jr.An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
Gilbert K. ChestertonOne 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 HitchensI don’t believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn’t say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It’s an ongoing process.
Eckhart TolleWhat a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
George Bernard ShawThere is no wealth but life.
John RuskinWhat do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?
Friedrich NietzscheBe not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
Baruch SpinozaA person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
Desmond TutuThere is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
William ShakespeareBetween falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
Samuel JohnsonNecessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
Friedrich NietzscheLife without liberty is like a body without spirit.
Khalil GibranWhich death is preferably to every other? ‚The unexpected‘.
Julius CaesarFrom the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
Samuel JohnsonWe are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
Isaac NewtonWe run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.
Blaise PascalI was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.
Nipsey HussleOnce spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
Friedrich NietzscheSusceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.
Henry AdamsEvery man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.
Blaise PascalKeep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Khalil GibranWhat can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
Friedrich NietzscheThe brain is wider than the sky.
Emily DickinsonEvery man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
Samuel JohnsonNothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
Blaise PascalBefore the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.
Friedrich NietzscheNature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
Henry David ThoreauThere is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.
Karl MarxWe are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
Samuel JohnsonThere is no such thing as part freedom.
Nelson MandelaJudgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
Friedrich NietzscheMusic is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Ludwig van BeethovenWhen we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
John MuirWe must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.
George Bernard ShawBeing is the great explainer.
Henry David ThoreauThere is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
Friedrich NietzscheShallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
Benjamin Disraeli