Quotes by Philosophers - Page 12

What pulls the strings is the force hidden within there lies ... the real man.
Marcus Aurelius
Ruin and recovery are both from within.
Epictetus
Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.
Simone de Beauvoir
Only those means of security are good are certain are lasting that depend on yourself and your own vigor.
Niccolò Machiavelli
For the great benefits of our being- our life health and reason-we look upon ourselves.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Baruch Spinoza
The cure for grief is motion.
Elbert Hubbard
This life is not for complaint but for satisfaction.
Henry David Thoreau
Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature but in men it is a vice.
Boethius
Thales was asked what was most difficult to man he answered: "To know one's self."
Diogenes
To know oneself one should assert oneself.
Albert Camus
It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much but I am my own comedy and tragedy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The precept "Know yourself " was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind but likewise that we might understand our own worth.
Cicero
One may understand the cosmos but never the ego the self is more distant than any star.
G.K. Chesterton
It's not our disadvantages or shortcomings that are ridiculous but rather the studious way we try to hide them and our desire to act as if they did not exist.
Giacomo Leopardi
The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.
Thales
Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.
Georges Gurdjieff
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
Susan Sontag
The life which is unexamined is not worth living.
Plato
Knowing others is wisdom knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
Lao Tzu
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Henry David Thoreau
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies the hardest victory is the victory over self.
Aristotle
A man who knows he is a fool is not a great fool.
Chuang-tzu
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Epictetus
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired but by controlling that desire.
Epictetus
Not being able to govern events I govern myself.
Michel de Montaigne
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.
Aldous Huxley
What lies in our power to do it lies in our power not to do.
Aristotle
He who conquers others is strong he who conquers himself is mighty.
Lao Tzu
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Self-command is the main elegance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Confidence ... is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.
John Dewey
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
Erich Fromm
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks on great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
Cicero
Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him.
Bertrand Russell
Humility is attentive patience.
Simone Weil
There's one blessing only the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Pride ... is the direct appreciation of oneself.
Arthur Schopenhauer
He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.
Susan Sontag
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
William James
Accept the place the divine providence has found for you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
Bernard de Fontenelle
Learn to ... be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.
Jean Vanier
At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand know the exact number of his defects and qualities. ... And above all accept these things.
Albert Camus
Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?
Henry David Thoreau
One must not hope to be more than one can be.
Nicolas de Chamfort
We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.
Horace
Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance.
José Ortega y Gasset
Of all our infirmities the most savage is to despise our being.
Michel de Montaigne
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself in spite of being unacceptable.
Paul Tillich
If you must love your neighbor as yourself it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
Nicolas de Chamfort
What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
What a man thinks of himself that is what determines or rather indicates his fate.
Henry David Thoreau
Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
Eric Hoffer
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself and not by borrowing.
Michel de Montaigne
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.
Aldous Huxley