Quotes by Philosophers - Page 38

Remember this: If you work for a man in Heaven's name work for him. If he pays you wages which supply you bread and butter work for him speak well of him stand by the institution he represents. If put to a pinch an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must vilify condemn and eternally disparage - resign your position and when you are on the outside damn to your heart's content but as long as you are part of the institution do not condemn it.
Elbert Hubbard
Extremes meet and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
Friedrich Nietzsche
A hungry people listens not to reason nor cares for justice nor is bent by any prayers.
Seneca
No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter
Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.
Aldous Huxley
Humour is the only test of gravity and gravity of humour for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Aristotle
The total absence of humour from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North Whitehead
I am not an Athenian nor a Greek but a citizen of the world.
Socrates
The world is my country all mankind are my brethren and to do good is my religion.
Thomas Paine
I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility.
John Ruskin
The more you let yourself go the less others let you go.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Our humanity were a poor thing but for the divinity that stirs within us.
Sir Francis Bacon
Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
Abraham J. Heschel
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
Albert Schweitzer
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked not be endured with patient resignation.
Bertrand Russell
It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.
Eric Hoffer
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
Erich Fromm
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
Albert Camus
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We wander through this life together in a semi-darkness in which none of us can distinguish exactly the features of his neighbour. Only from time to time through some experience that we have of our companion or through some remark that he passes he stands for a moment close to us as though illuminated by a flash of lightning. Then we see him as he really is.
Albert Schweitzer
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
Francis Bacon
Outside among your fellows among strangers you must preserve appearances 100 things you cannot do but inside the terrible freedom!
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When the man is at home his standing in society is well known and quietly taken but when he is abroad it is problematical and is dependent on the success of his manners.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Houses are built to live in and not to look on.
Sir Francis Bacon
Hope is the poor man's bread.
Thales
Abandon hope all ye who enter here.
Dante Alighieri
To the sick while there is life there is hope.
Cicero
Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born.
Solomon
A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable Faith means believing the unbelievable And hoping means to hope when things are hopeless.
G.K. Chesterton
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
G.K. Chesterton
Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery.
Bertrand Russell
Appetite with an opinion of attaining is called hope the same without such opinion despair.
Thomas Hobbes
Oh what a valiant faculty is hope.
Michel de Montaigne
Never despair.
Horace
There is no hope unmingled with fear and no fear unmingled with hope.
Baruch Spinoza
Patience is the art of hoping.
Vauvenargues
Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle
It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
Eric Hoffer
There is nothing that fear or hope does not make men believe.
Vauvenargues
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Man needs for his happiness not only the enjoyment of this or that but hope and enterprise and change.
Bertrand Russell
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.
Friedrich Nietzsche
We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true they ruin our dreams.
Eric Hoffer
Hope is a good breakfast but it is a bad supper.
Francis Bacon
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours but in deserving them.
Aristotle
Fame is something which must be won honour is something which must not be lost.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The louder he talked of his honour the faster we counted our spoons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The honester the man the worse luck.
John Ray
Man makes holy what he believes as he makes beautiful what he loves.
Ernest Renan
Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.
George Santayana
An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: 'There is very little difference between one man and another but what there is is very important.'
William James
What comes from the heart goes to the heart.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Man is only a reed the weakest thing in nature but he is a thinking reed.
Blaise Pascal
It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility.
George Santayana
Man an animal that makes bargains.
Adam Smith
Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself: and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being to use him as a mere means for some external purpose.
Immanuel Kant
We should expect the best and the worst from mankind as from the weather.
Vauvenargues
Men are cruel but man is kind.
Rabindranath Tagore