Quotes by Philosophers - Page 13

In the main it is not by introspection but by reflecting on our living in common with others that we come to know ourselves. What is revealed? It is an original creation. Freely the subject makes himself what he is never in this life is the making finished always it is in process always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter.
Bernard Lonergan
I am better than my reputation.
Friedrich von Schiller
Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity.
Erich Fromm
Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably.
Blaise Pascal
To penetrate one's being one must go armed to the teeth.
Paul Valéry
Never to talk of oneself is a form of hypocrisy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
Michel de Montaigne
Self-respect is the root of discipline: the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Abraham J. Heschel
If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.
George Santayana
No man does anything from a single motive.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.
John Ruskin
Man's security comes from within himself.
Manly Hall
To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
If you would wish another to keep your secret first keep it yourself.
Seneca
Science is nothing but perception.
Plato
Science is the systematic classification of experience.
George Henry Lewes
Science is organized knowledge.
Herbert Spencer
Science is nothing but developed perception interpreted intent common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
George Santayana
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John Dewey
A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.
Alfred North Whitehead
Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago but it is put to better use.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.
Marshall McLuhan
Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for and is therefore right in postulating may be enveloped in a wider order on which she has no claim at all.
William James
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
Ernest Renan
If all the arts aspire to the condition of music all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.
George Santayana
Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience at all.
Norbert Wiener
Example is the school of mankind and they will learn at no other.
Edmund Burke
I pay the School Master but 'tis the school boys that educate my son.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I would live to study not study to live.
Francis Bacon
Work and love - these are the basics waking life is a dream controlled.
George Santayana
If I had read as much as other men I should have known no more than they.
Thomas Hobbes
Outside among your fellows among strangers you must preserve appearances a hundred things you cannot do but inside the terrible freedom!
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sanity is very rare every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
Thomas Carlyle
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
Jean Paul Richter
I never was ruined but twice - once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I gained one.
Voltaire
All men that are ruined are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
Edmund Burke
Immature love says "I love you because I need you." Mature love says "I need you because I love you."
Erich Fromm
Every noble crown is and on Earth will forever be a crown of thorns.
Thomas Carlyle
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
Voltaire
From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
Publilius Syrus
When people are free to do as they please they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer
Imitation can acquire pretty much everything but the power which created the thing imitated.
Henry S. Haskins
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
William James
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Albert Schweitzer
Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.
Ayn Rand
Nothing arouses ambition so much as the trumpet clang of another's fame.
Baltasar Gracián
Every 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 a fire is guilty of suicide?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
An individual dies ... when instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being he cowers within and takes refuge there.
E. M. Cioran
Without risk faith is an impossibility.
Søren Kierkegaard
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him if he front it not bravely it will keep its word.
Thomas Carlyle
One never finds anything perfectly pure and ... exempt from danger.
Niccolò Machiavelli
It is the business of the future to be dangerous.
Alfred North Whitehead
It is not manly to turn one's back on fortune.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
As soon as there is life there is danger.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is only by risking ... that we live at all.
William James