Quotes by Philosophers - Page 32

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
Where the willingness is great the difficulties cannot be great.
Niccolò Machiavelli
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
Where the willingness is great the difficulties cannot be great.
Niccolò Machiavelli
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
The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.
Eric Hoffer
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary whatever the punishment once a specific crime has appeared for the first time its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
Hannah Arendt
We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory.
Cicero
We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves we desire to live an imaginary life in the minds of others and for this purpose we endeavor to shine.
Blaise Pascal
The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.
John Ruskin
Poverty Frost Famine Rain Disease are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Necessity who is the mother of our invention.
Plato
To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.
Eric Hoffer
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire emotion and knowledge.
Plato
Wealth ... and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence and the other of meanness and vicious-ness and both of discontent.
Plato
Lust and force are the source of all our actions lust causes voluntary actions force involuntary ones.
Blaise Pascal
For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
Friedrich Nietzsche
To be what we are and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.
Baruch Spinoza
Men are what their mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sun is new each day.
Heraclitus
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
Henry David Thoreau
If God adds another day to our life let us receive it gladly.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
Elbert Hubbard
I get up and I bless the light thin clouds and the first twittering of birds and the breathing air and smiling face of the hills.
Giacomo Leopardi
To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy ... is to set our own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.
Ralph Waldo Trine
Here hath been dawning another blue day: think wilt thou let it slip useless away?
Thomas Carlyle
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
Do not shorten the morning by getting up late look upon it as the quintessence of life and to a certain extent sacred.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Do not say "It is morning " and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
Rabindranath Tagore
God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Snow endures but for a season and joy comes with the morning.
Marcus Aurelius
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
Friedrich Nietzsche
To give a man full knowledge of true morality I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.
John Locke
The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized vilified and misunderstood. This is part of the penalty for greatness and every man understands too that it is no proof of greatness.
Elbert Hubbard
You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.
Henry David Thoreau
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and the other which we practice but seldom preach.
Bertrand Russell
No morality can be founded on authority even if the authority were divine.
A.J. Ayer
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.
Alfred North Whitehead
No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.
Michel de Montaigne
What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.
Henry David Thoreau
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.
Albert Schweitzer
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
Henry David Thoreau
Money is like muck - not good unless it be spread.
Francis Bacon
A good mind possesses a kingdom: a great fortune is a great slavery.
Seneca
When it is a question of money everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire
Money is human happiness in the abstract.
Arthur Schopenhauer
A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone.
Henry David Thoreau
Riches are for spending.
Francis Bacon
A modest man never talks of himself.
Jean de La Bruyère
Money is the poor people's credit card.
Marshall McLuhan
With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
Schopenhauer
To be clever enough to get all that money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet neither thirsty nor drunken.
Aristotle