Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
Jean-Jacques RousseauA nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
Martin Luther King, Jr.There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
William ShakespeareIt is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
Niccolo MachiavelliI’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.
Adam SandlerBut blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
Alexander PopeUnder a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
Henry David ThoreauThere is only a finger’s difference between a wise man and a fool.
DiogenesFaith: not wanting to know what is true.
Friedrich NietzscheWe call first truths those we discover after all the others.
Albert CamusI try to see the good in everybody, and I don’t care who people are as long as they’re themselves, whatever that is.
Dolly PartonWhen I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.
DiogenesThere is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
Dalai LamaChaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.
BuddhaWisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
PlatoIf I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe words of truth are always paradoxical.
Lao TzuHe alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
Baruch SpinozaChaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
Henry AdamsThe goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
John F. KennedyTo die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
H. L. MenckenShrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
Carl JungI’m considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I’ve never been bored in my life.
Maya AngelouReality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert EinsteinMany that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
J. R. R. TolkienNothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
Baruch SpinozaWords may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.
Benjamin FranklinAll thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
Immanuel KantI was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.
Kevin GatesAs much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.
J. ColeHabit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
Blaise PascalAdvice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.
Marcus Tullius CiceroAge appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Francis BaconThis is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
Marcus Tullius CiceroEach thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.
Marcus AureliusHealth is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
BuddhaHeaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.
Franz KafkaThe well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
Oscar WildeWhere ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
Dalai LamaI believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.
Mr. TTo see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.
ConfuciusMany foxes grow gray but few grow good.
Benjamin FranklinThere are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.
ConfuciusMysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAny fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.
Dale CarnegieToleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
Edmund BurkeI say there is no darkness but ignorance.
William ShakespeareThe whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand RussellJudging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
Albert CamusKnowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Samuel JohnsonWhat do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?
Friedrich NietzscheA clever man commits no minor blunders.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheBeauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
Albert CamusI have just got a new theory of eternity.
Albert EinsteinI feel 80% of my life is completely normal.
J. K. RowlingThey say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
Terry PratchettWe know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
Blaise PascalA broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
Henry David ThoreauLife is the childhood of our immortality.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheA man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Theodore Roosevelt