Quotes by Philosophers - Page 19

Peace is not an absence of war it is a virtue a state of mind a disposition for benevolence confidence justice.
Benedict Spinoza
Peace is a virtual mute sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds.
Paul Valéry
The peace of the man who has foresworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace but a canting impotence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Albert Schweitzer
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
Marcus Aurelius
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
Marcus Aurelius
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.
José Ortega y Gasset
A nation is a body of people who have done great things together.
Ernest Renan
One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able vicariously to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat what's more with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
Aldous Huxley
Patience is the art of hoping.
Vauvenargues
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People in a hurry cannot think cannot grow nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.
Eric Hoffer
There is nothing so bitter that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.
Seneca
The present contains nothing more than the past and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
Henri Bergson
Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.
Thomas Hobbes
Love is not altogether a delirium yet it has many points in common therewith.
Thomas Carlyle
Love is of all passions the strongest for it attacks simultaneously the head the heart and the senses.
Lao Tzu
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
George Santayana
Man becomes man only by the intelligence but he is man only by the heart.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Disappointments should be cremated not embalmed.
Henry S. Haskins
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
Blaise Pascal
What our age lacks is not reflection but passion.
Søren Kierkegaard
An intense feeling carries with it its own universe magnificent or wretched as the case may be.
Albert Camus
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
Eric Hoffer
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and in a sense tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother and to become fully independent.
Erich Fromm
When one has not had a good father one must create one.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Bertrand Russell
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
Will Durant
A picture is a poem without words.
Horace
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
John Ruskin
A man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.
Syrus
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell
It is preoccupation with possession more than anything else that prevents men from living freely and nobly.
Bertrand Russell
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being.
William James
There is a courageous wisdom there is also a false reptile prudence the result not of caution but of fear.
Edmund Burke
There is no hope unmingled with fear and no fear unmingled with hope.
Baruch Spinoza
Fear is the main source of superstition and one of the main sources of cruelty.
Bertrand A. Russell
Fear is uncertainty.
Eric Hoffer
Fear could never make a virtue.
Voltaire
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Albert Camus
Fear is the start of wisdom.
Miguel de Unamuno
Fear is an instructor of great sagacity and the herald of all revolutions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Aristotle
Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.
Hannah Arendt
Fear is an uneasiness of the mind upon the thought of a future evil likely to befall us.
John Locke
Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
Elbert Hubbard
Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Any device whatever by which one frees himself from fear is a natural good.
Epicurus
If you wish to fear nothing consider that everything is to be feared.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Envy comes from people's ignorance of or lack of belief in their own gifts.
Jean Vanier
The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.
Baltasar Gracián
I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
Cicero
If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy but we want to be happier than other people which is almost always difficult since we think them happier than they are.
Charles de Montesquieu
Beggars do not envy millionaires though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.
Bertrand Russell
Pale death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.
Horace
Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
Blaise Pascal
In all climates under all skies man's happiness is always somewhere else.
Giacomo Leopardi