Quotes by Philosophers - Page 33

To live long it is necessary to live slowly.
Cicero
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine
The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fire tries gold misery tries brave men.
Seneca
A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life and find solace in fantasy.
G.K. Chesterton
There are three classes of men-lovers of wisdom lovers of honour lovers of gain.
Plato
A feeble body weakens the mind.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
At twenty a man is a peacock at thirty a lion at forty a camel at fifty a serpent at sixty a dog at seventy an ape at eighty nothing at all.
Baltasar Gracián
By gnawing through a dyke even a rat may drown a nation.
Edmund Burke
Shall we judge a country by the majority or by the minority? By the minority surely.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There was never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male except his superior muscle.
Bertrand Russell
The desire of a man for a woman is not directed at her because she is a human being but because she is a woman. That she is a human being is of no concern to him.
Immanuel Kant
The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.
Michel de Montaigne
Two things control man's nature: instinct and experience.
Blaise Pascal
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man but for this to endure it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
If a man hears much that a woman says she is not beautiful.
Henry S. Haskins
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
Susan Sontag
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
G.K. Chesterton
That all men are equal is a proposition to which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.
Aldous Huxley
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is commonly seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgements.
Michel de Montaigne
Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little to cure diseases of which they know less in human beings of whom they know nothing.
Voltaire
The best doctor is the one you run for and can't find.
Denis Diderot
Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.
Jean Paul Richter
The physician heals Nature makes well.
Aristotle
When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.
Vauvenargues
No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.
Michel de Montaigne
The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.
Henry Maudsley
A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live a physician will be made fun of but he will be well paid.
Jean de La Bruyère
There are some remedies worse than the disease.
Publilius Syrus
Is not marriage an open question when it is alleged from the beginning of the world that such as are in the institution wish to get out and such as are out wish to get in.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises either of virtue or mischief.
Sir Francis Bacon
A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.
Sir Francis Bacon
Polygamy: an endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.
Elbert Hubbard
There is a radicalism in all getting and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical while marriage is conservative.
Eric Hoffer
What once were vices are now manners.
Seneca
I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?
Friedrich Nietzsche
Man is the measure of all things.
Protagoras
Man is a social animal.
Seneca
Man is a piece of the universe made alive.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We arc the miracle of miracles the great inscrutable mystery of God.
Thomas Carlyle
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Elbert Hubbard
Men have become the tools of their tools.
Henry David Thoreau
Man is a tool-using animal.
Thomas Carlyle
A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.
Cicero
Work and acquire and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must master our good fortune or it will master us.
Publilius Syrus
It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
Baltasar Gracián
Some are satisfied to stand politely before the portals of Fortune and to await her bidding better those who push forward who employ their enterprise who on the wings of their worth and valor seek to embrace luck and to effectively gain her favor.
Baltasar Gracián
Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
Chuang-tzu
Luck serves ... as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny.
Hannah Arendt
Luck is a word devoid of sense nothing can exist without a cause.
Voltaire
To believe in luck ... is skepticism.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shallow men believe in luck wise and strong men in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
Emmanuel Swedenborg
Love - a grave mental disease.
Plato
All mankind love a lover.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness compassion intelligence everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible the absolute the sky on fire inexhaustible springtime life after death and death itself transfigured into eternal life.
Albert Camus
No one can do me any good by loving me I have more love than I need or could do any good with but people do me good by making me love them - which isn't easy.
John Ruskin