Quotes by Philosophers - Page 34

Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The heart that has truly loved never forgets but as truly loves on to the close.
Thomas More
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
John Ruskin
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage then to their disadvantage.
Albert Camus
Alas! how light a cause may move dissention between hearts that love!
Thomas More
Immature love says "I love you because I need you." Mature love says "I need you because I love you."
Erich Fromm
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne
The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Little do men perceive what solitude is and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love.
Francis Bacon
Language has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone and the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.
Paul Tillich
So lonely 'twas that God himself scarce seemed there to be.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To be adult is to be alone (etre adulte c'est etre seul).
Jean Rostand
A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.
Albert Camus
The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.
Aldous Huxley
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole its body brevity and wit its soul.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Science is uneasy with beginnings. Mythology is concerned above all with what happened "in the beginning". Its signature is "Once upon a time".
Dudley Young
I can find my biography in every fable that I read.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man having once shown himself capable of original writing is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
His heart was as great as the world but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Someday after we have mastered the winds the waves the tide and gravity we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world man will have discovered fire.
Teilhard de Chardin
In the true man there is a child concealed - who wants to play.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The love we give away is the only one we keep.
Elbert Hubbard
For love ... is the blood of life the power of reunion in the separated.
Paul Tillich
It is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rest upon this foundation: that we experience Him in our lives as Will-to-love.
Albert Schweitzer
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life the whole aim and end of human existence.
Aristotle
Joy is the most infallible sign of the Presence of God.
Teilhard de Chardin
Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.
Lewis Mumford
It is a man's proper business to seek happiness and avoid misery.
John Locke
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Bertrand Russell
The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
Bertrand Russell
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.
Albert Camus
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile a kind look a heartfelt compliment and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man to enjoy the present without anxious dependence on the future not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have which is abundantly sufficient.
Seneca
The highest wisdom is continual cheerfulness such a state like the region above the moon is always clear and serene.
Michel de Montaigne
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
One thing I know the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Albert Schweitzer
There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
Rabindranath Tagore
Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think.
Jean de La Bruyère
As is a tale so is life: not how long it is but how good it is is what matters.
Seneca
His saying was: live and let live.
Friedrich von Schiller
Out of sleeping a waking Out of waking a sleep.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities.
Thomas Carlyle
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Erich Fromm
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Erich Fromm
Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light.
Thomas Carlyle
Love . . . includes fellowship in suffering in joy and in effort.
Albert Schweitzer
He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche
To fear love is to fear life and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell
There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
The good life as I conceive it is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
Bertrand Russell
Life begins on the other side of despair.
Jean-Paul Sartre
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
William James
At any given moment life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time having a purpose tending in a certain direction.
Aldous Huxley
Life is a stranger's sojourn a night at an inn.
Marcus Aurelius
The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing. The main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unforeseen attack.
Marcus Aurelius
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana
We never live but we are always in the expectation of living.
Voltaire