Quotes by Philosophers - Page 20

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.
John Cage
In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.
Horace
There are three wants which can never be satisfied: that of the rich who want something more that of the sick who want something different and that of the traveler who says "Anywhere but here."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To have ideals is not the same as to have impracticable ideals.
L. Susan Stebbing
Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best and he answered "Somebody else's."
Michel de Montaigne
No one is content with his own lot.
Horace
When people are free to do as they please they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced and partakes of the nature of a protest.
Eric Hoffer
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours kindle it at home communicate it to others and it becomes the property of all.
Voltaire
What the orators want in depth they give you in length.
Charles Montesquieu
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order method and discipline.
Michel de Montaigne
Large organization is loose organization. Nay it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
G.K. Chesterton
When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
Will Durant
Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
Elbert Hubbard
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.
Elbert Hubbard
My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Jean Rostand
The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day and of doing good once in a year.
Voltaire
The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
Voltaire
In the midst of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.
Vauvenargues
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities but its own talents.
Eric Hoffer
If a man looks sharply and attentively he shall see fortune for though she be blind yet she is not invisible.
Francis Bacon
Know thine opportunity.
Pittacus
The world is all gates all opportunities strings of tension waiting to be struck.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worst.
Albert Camus
God forgives those who invent what they need.
Ayn Rand
The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.
Publilius Syrus
Force and not opinion is the queen of the world but it it opinion that uses the force.
Pascal
One should respect public opinion in so far as it is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
Bertrand Russell
There never were two opinions alike in all the world no more than two hours or two grains: the most universal quality is diversity.
Michel de Montaigne
New opinions are always suspected and usually opposed without any other reason but because they are not already common.
John Locke
Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different.
Lord Samuel
If you want people to think well of you do not speak well of yourself.
Blaise Pascal
A good speech like a woman's skirt should be long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest. I have been asked to give my address in the remaining five minutes. That I can do! Here it is: 10 Carlton Gardens London England.
Lord Balfour
Time is the greatest innovator.
Francis Bacon
Time is the author of authors.
Francis Bacon
Time is an illusion-to orators.
Elbert Hubbard
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
Henry David Thoreau
Time is a wealth of change but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
Rabindranath Tagore
The surest poison is time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time is the silent never-resting thing ... rolling rushing on swift silent like an all-embracing oceantide on which we and all the universe swim.
Thomas Carlyle
Time is the moving image of eternity.
Plato
Time is that in which all things pass away.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Theophrastus
Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.
Elbert Hubbard
Each day is a little life every waking and rising a little birth every fresh morning a little youth every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Scrolls: write on them what you want to be remembered for.
Joseph Ibn Pakuda
Time is the product of changing realities beings existences.
Nicholas Berdyaev
The value of life lies not in the length of days but in the use we make of them a man may live long yet live very little.
Michel de Montaigne
Time is a part of eternity and of the same piece with it.
Moses Mendelssohn
Quality is not an act. It is a habit.
Aristotle
Habit is stronger than reason.
George Santayana
To learn new habits is everything for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
At any rate you can bear it for a quarter of an hour!
Theodore Haecker
A day is a miniature eternity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
Nicolas de Chamfort
To live each day as though one's last never flustered never apathetic never attitudinizing-here is perfection of character.
Marcus Aurelius