Quotes by Philosophers - Page 22

When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
Voltaire
Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament but in the reporters' gallery yonder there sat a fourth Estate more important than them all.
Thomas Carlyle
We never live but we are always in the expectation of living.
Voltaire
We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.
Elbert Hubbard
Never mind your happiness do your duty.
Will Durant
The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.
Edmund Burke
When your neighbor's house is afire your own property is at stake.
Horace
Everything in nature acts in conformity with law.
Immanuel Kant
Nature has always had more force than education.
Voltaire
When I would recreate myself I seek the darkest wood the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen most dismal swamp. I enter a swamp as a sacred place - a sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength the marrow of Nature.
Henry David Thoreau
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could some blunders and absurdities have crept in forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.
Francis Bacon
For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully though I never received one cent for it.
Henry David Thoreau
Earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Aristotle
The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.
Cicero
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Henry David Thoreau
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
Henry David Thoreau
To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is saturated with deity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense.
Ayn Rand
When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world I thank God I am alive.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is too thin a screen the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
Francis Bacon
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
George Santayana
I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech tree or a yellow birch or an old acquaintance among the pines.
Henry David Thoreau
The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.
Rabindranath Tagore
Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry she carries them
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
Thomas Carlyle
Nature is not human-hearted.
Lao Tzu
Men argue nature acts.
Voltaire
Is dishwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.
G.K. Chesterton
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.
Horace
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Thomas Carlyle
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
Confucius
After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley
Who is there that in logical words can express the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate unfathomable speech which leads us to the edge of the Infinite and lets us for moments gaze into that!
Thomas Carlyle
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
G.K. Chesterton
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Generally music feedeth that disposition of the spirits which it findeth.
Francis Bacon
A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.
Colin Wilson
Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear which remains unsatisfied and even uneasy until it hears something better. I am convinced...that provided the ear be at length made amends there are few dissonances too strong for it. Disharmony to paraphrase Bergson's statement about disorder is simply a harmony to which many are unaccustomed.
John Cage
An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever I could not sing an air to save my life but I have the intensest delight in music and can detect good from bad.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If each of us were to confess his most secret desire the one that inspires all his plans all his actions he would say: "I want to be praised."
E. M. Cioran
It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Fear desire hope still push us on toward the future.
Michel de Montaigne
Great men undertake great things because they are great fools because they think them easy.
Vauvenargues
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means and so make for themselves different modes of life.
Aristotle
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ they aim at the same end.
Blaise Pascal
All life is the struggle the effort to be itself.
José Ortega y Gasset
Choose always the way that seems the best however rough it may be custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.
Pythagoras
What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be one's own self
Michel de Montaigne
Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity.
Erich Fromm
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.
Thomas Paine
With begging and scrambling we find very little but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.
Rabindranath Tagore