Quotes by Philosophers - Page 199

Our political vagueness divides men, it does not fuse them.
G.K. Chesterton
He marveled at the strange blindness by which men, though they are so alert to what changes in themselves, impose on their friends an image chosen for them once and for all. He was being judged by what he had been. Just as dogs don't change character, men are dogs for one another.
Albert Camus
The favour of God, forfeits the failure of men.
Gift Gugu Mona
The favour of God forfeits the failure of men.
Gift Gugu Mona
The little respect paid to chastity in the male world is, I am persuaded, the grand source of many of the physical and moral evils that torment mankind, as well as of the vices and follies that degrade and destroy women; yet, at school, boys infallibly lose that decent bashfulness, which might have ripened into modesty at home.
Mary Wollstonecraft
... male company, sheer complicit male company: the complicity of males which is like, indeed is, a kind of complicity in crime, in chauvinism, in getting away with things, in just gluttonously enjoying the present even if hell is all around.
Iris Murdoch
Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he may forget "men who are the rule," as their exception;-- exclusive only of the case in which he is pushed straight to such men by a still stronger instinct, as a discerner in the great and exceptional sense.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
Simone de Beauvoir
So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.
Albert Camus
Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.
Niccolò Machiavelli
It is not titles that honour men, but men that honour titles.
Niccolò Machiavelli
Judge not the value of a friend by the number of boy- or girlfriends they helped you get. But by the number of books they’ve recommended to you.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The older you get, the easier it is for you to distinguish between your friends and people you are not seeing for the first time.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Friends are family members we have a choice over.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Hanging around people you’re smarter than is good for your ego. Hanging around people who are smarter than you is good for your intellect.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
To hear how great your friends think you are: fake your death, or, get married.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
To gain height, lose all your tall friends.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
After our loved one dies: we cry, not because they left; but because they left us.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Your friends love you for who you are. Your family loves you for what you are.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If growing up means not seeing one’s family and friends on the regular—all in the name of paying the bills, then growing up is overrated.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
You are my only friend in the world, and I want to talk to you. Or, perhaps, be silent with you.
G.K. Chesterton
One in three all friends are:Brothers in distress,equals facing rivals,free men - facing death!
Friedrich Nietzsche
We choose our friends on the basis of, among other things, our conception of ourselves. That's not to say that friendship is narcissistic, it doesn't follow that we choose people 'like ourselves'; in fact we might choose people very different than ourselves. For example, if I'm not very intelligent, and I'm concerned about my lack of intelligence, I might take up with an extremely intelligent woman, precisely in order to have her intelligence, in some sense, radiate onto me.The idea is that in friendship what we do is we pick people who are going to reinforce, in some sense, our own conception of ourselves. So if I think of myself as intelligent, or I want to think of myself as intelligent, whether or not I pick a partner who is also intelligent, what is going to be essential is that it's going to be a partner who somehow expands my notion of my own intelligence, either by telling me all the time, perhaps, how intelligent I am, or maybe by always contradicting me in such a way that I can prove my intelligence with her or him.
Robert C. Solomon
Just as the hand rushes involuntarily to protect one's honor in case of accidental state of undress, so does a friend come to his friend's aid without being asked
Thiruvalluvar
Good friends are divine instruments.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You will know a friendship is not natural when you don't feel relaxed with
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Enemy: A friend whose mask has fallen
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Friend: A potential enemy with whom relations have not yet deteriorated to all-out war
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The body is not a reliable friend
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Souls from the same star find it impossible to resist dancing to the tune of inevitability.
T.F. Hodge
Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A bad friend is is worse than an enemy, an enemy you can see and avoid, but to detect an insincere friend is hard
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Poverty has deceived many of us into believing that some people who are in that state love the food, clothes, places, and people that they do not even like. The same can be said about wealth.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A man dies as often as he loses his friends.
Francis Bacon
Would a robber break in your home at night beating drums? Nope. This is how those who want to take advantage of your life come: Full of smiles and promising sincere friendship!
Bangambiki Habyarimana
A smile is a friend maker
Bangambiki Habyarimana
A gloomy face drives friends away
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Never be an insincere friend, never be manipulative, one day you will be discovered and lose everything
Bangambiki Habyarimana
A bad friend is nothing but a spy
Bangambiki Habyarimana
There are friendships that are greater than family bonds, but they are very rare
Bangambiki Habyarimana
A bad friend secretly plots your downfall
Bangambiki Habyarimana
In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.
Henry David Thoreau
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
Aristotle
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Aristotle
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never explain―your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.
G.K. Chesterton
Harness the imagination: Sometimes curbing her, sometimes giving her rein, for she is the whole of happiness. She sets to rights even the understanding. She sinks to tyranny, not satisfied with mere faith, but demanding works. Thus she becomes the mistress of life itself. She does so with pleasure or with pain, according to the nonsense presented. She makes people contented or discontented with themselves. By dangling before some nothing but the specter of their eternal suffering, she becomes the scourge of these fools. To others she shows nothing but fortune and romance, while merrily laughing. Of all this she is capable if not held in check by the wisest of wills.
Baltasar Gracián
By using repetition, images, and other strategies - all of which communicate truths in ways that are not cognitively or propositional - marketing forms us into the kind of persons who want to buy beer to have meaningful relationships, or to buy a car to be respected, or buy the latest thing to come along simply to satisfy the desire that has been formed and implanted in us. It is important to appreciate that these disciplinary mechanisms transmit values and truth claims, but not via propositions or cognitive means; rather, the values are transmitted more covertly...This covertness of the operation is also what makes it so powerful: the truths are inscribed in us through the powerful instruments of imagination and ritual.
James K.A. Smith
It was all too easy to make things up, it was like skating on thin ice, it was like doing dainty pirouettes on a brittle crust over water thousands of fathoms deep.
Jostein Gaarder
Lo, which a greet thing is affeccioun!Men may die of imaginacioun,So depe may impressioun be take.
Geoffrey Chaucer