Quotes by Philosophers - Page 10

What is success? To laugh often and much To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends To appreciate beauty To find the best in others To leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child a garden patch or a redeemed social condition To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived That is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear is the absence of faith.
Paul Tillich
Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Often I have found that the one thing that can save is the thing which appears most to threaten ... one has to go down into what one most fears and in that process ... comes a saving flicker of light and energy that even if it does not produce the courage of a hero at any rate enables a trembling mortal to take one step further.
Laurens van der Post
Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
Cicero
Histories make men wise poets witty the mathematics subtile natural philosophy deep morals grave logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Sir Francis Bacon
When in fear it is safest to force the attack.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.
Friedrich von Schiller
What does not destroy me makes me strong.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
Friedrich Nietzsche
No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear.
Cicero
States are as the men are they grow out of human characters.
Plato
A state is a perfect body of free men united together to enjoy common rights and advantages.
Hugo Grotius
Hitch your wagon to a star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I play with my cat who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?
Michel Montaigne
Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.
Horace
Souls are made of dawn-stuff and starshine.
Elbert Hubbard
Excite the soul and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear the world itself loses its solidity nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith is above all openness an act of trust in the unknown.
Alan Watts
Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore
God gives us always strength enough and sense enough for everything He wants us to do.
John Ruskin
Speech is the index of the mind.
Seneca
I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
Henry David Thoreau
Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
Plato
Speech is silvern silence is golden.
Thomas Carlyle
First learn the meaning of what you say and then speak.
Epictetus
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again though it contradict everything you said today.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
Cicero
Whatever is well said by another is mine.
Seneca
A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
G.K. Chesterton
Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word never to withdraw one.
Baltasar Gracián
All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sorrows are like thunderclouds - in the distance they look black over our heads scarcely gray.
Jean Paul Richter
The one thing in the world of value is the active soul.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men who are unhappy like men who sleep badly are always proud of the fact.
Bertrand Russell
There is something pleasurable in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.
Cicero
No one can keep his griefs in their prime they use themselves up.
E. M. Cioran
Sorrow makes us all children again.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are some men above grief and some men below it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every noble crown is and on earth will ever be a crown of thorns.
Thomas Carlyle
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Henry David Thoreau
We never touch but at points.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is a social animal.
Seneca
Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes ennui of the higher ones.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.
Alfred North Whitehead
The classes that wash most are those that work least.
G.K. Chesterton
Two people can form a community by excluding a third.
Jean-Paul Sartre
All Socialism involves slavery.
Herbert Spencer
Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.
Henry David Thoreau
Who can refute a sneer?
William Paley
Great intellects are skeptical.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.
David Hume
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
Mencius
Sometimes gentle sometimes capricious sometimes awful never the same for two moments together almost human in its passions almost spiritual in its tenderness almost Divine in its infinity.
John Ruskin
If you put a chain around the neck of a slave the other end fastens itself around your own.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Skepticism means not intellectual doubt alone but moral doubt.
Thomas Carlyle