Quotes by Philosophers - Page 15

Faith means intense usually confident belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.
Walter Kaufmann
Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious but who understands the non-existent.
Elbert Hubbard
I think if you ask people what their concept of heaven is they would say if they are honest that it is a big department store with new things every week - all the money to buy them and maybe a little more than the neighbours.
Erich Fromm
When people cease to believe in God they don't believe in nothing they believe in anything.
G.K. Chesterton
The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that if you let it alone it will let you alone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. It is not enough that a thing be possible for it to be believed.
Voltaire
Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.
Albert Camus
The writers against religion whilst they oppose every system are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
Edmund Burke
My own mind is my own church.
Thomas Paine
The more you let yourself go the less others let you go.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.
Eric Hoffer
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
Albert Camus
When the man is at home his standing in society is well known and quietly taken but when he is abroad it is problematical and is dependent on the success of his manners.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always repenting of wrongs done will never bring my heart to rest.
Ji Kang
There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.
Dante Alighieri
Life is full of chances and changes and the most prosperous of men may ... meet with great misfortunes.
Aristotle
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Fortune is like the market where many times if you can stay a little the price will fall.
Francis Bacon
To make a crooked stick straight we bend it the contrary way.
Michel Montaigne
If you have behaved badly repent make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
Aldous Huxley
We are reformers in Spring and Summer in Autumn and Winter we stand by the old reformers in the morning conservers at night.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is more easy to get a favor from fortune than to keep it.
Publilius Syrus
Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.
Cicero
Many are destined to reason wrongly others not to reason at all: and others to persecute those who do reason.
Voltaire
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
Plato
Reason deserves to be called a prophet for in showing up the consequence and effect of our actions in the present does it not tell us what the future will be?
Arthur Schopenhauer
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things it is feeble if it cannot realize that.
Blaise Pascal
All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
Blaise Pascal
Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality because reality is a spirit.
G.K. Chesterton
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
George Santayana
To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
If I were to wish for anything I should not wish for wealth and power but for the passionate sense of the potential for the eye which ever young and ardent sees the possible ... what wine is so sparkling so fragrant so intoxicating as possibility!
Søren Kierkegaard
Real life is to most men ... a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
Bertrand Russell
If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second or even the third place.
Cicero
Better is the enemy of the good.
Voltaire
What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven.
Friedrich Hölderlin
Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Vex not thy spirit at the course of things they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.
Marcus Aurelius
Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence with the certainty of losing it at last.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Free man is by necessity insecure thinking man is by necessity uncertain.
Erich Fromm
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Henry David Thoreau
Never let life's hardships disturb you ... no one can avoid problems not even saints or sages.
Nichiren Daishonen
Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.
George Santayana
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Read the best books first or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Henry David Thoreau
Reading maketh a full man.
Sir Francis Bacon
Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.
G.K. Chesterton
In quarreling the truth is always lost.
Syrus
It is not every question that deserves an answer.
Syrus
The punishment of criminals should be of use when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.
Voltaire
Depression is rage spread thin.
Paul Tillich
Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.
G.K. Chesterton
I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.
Cicero
Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.
Vauvenargues
What men want is not knowledge but certainty.
Bertrand Russell
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
John Locke
Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact but a legal fiction.
Max Stirner
Property is theft.
Proudhon
The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.
William James