Quotes by Philosophers - Page 39

We fancy men are individuals so are pumpkins but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whosoever would be a man must be a non-conformist.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I often marvel how it is that though each man loves himself beyond all else he should yet value his own opinion of himself less than that of others.
Marcus Aurelius
Most human beings have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Aldous Huxley
I am mortal born to love and to suffer.
Friedrich Hölderlin
Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors and a misfit from the start.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The cultivated man wise to know and bold to perform is the end to which nature works.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The historian is a prophet looking backwards.
Friedrich von Schlegel
There is properly no history only biography.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
History a distillation of rumor
Thomas Carlyle
History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.
Voltaire
History is a pact between the dead the living and the yet unborn.
Edmund Burke
The world's history is constant like the laws of nature and simple like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.
Friedrich von Schiller
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Will Durant
The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
Will Durant
All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The game of History is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
Eric Hoffer
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach.
Aldous Huxley
History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
Thomas Carlyle
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man but he is brave five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
Voltaire
Hero-worship exists has existed and will forever exist universally among mankind.
Thomas Carlyle
A man finds room in a few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors for the expression of all his history and his wants.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
Elbert Hubbard
The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.
Jean de La Bruyère
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others but it also becomes richer and happier.
Albert Schweitzer
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
Henry David Thoreau
When their children flourish almost all mothers have a sense of well-being.
Sara Ruddick
Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
He who does not live in some degree for others hardly lives for himself.
Michel de Montaigne
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
Simone Weil
Isn't it better to have men be ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
Denis Diderot
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
Simone Weil
Charity begins at home and usually stays there.
Elbert Hubbard
Even if it's a little thing do something for those who have need of help something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.
Albert Schweitzer
Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.
George Santayana
That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
Simone de Beauvoir
The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another.
Simone de Beauvoir
Generosity gives assistance rather than advice.
Vauvenargues
He gives twice who gives promptly.
Publilius Syrus
Compassion is the basis of all morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.
Dante Alighieri
Right Now Is the Time to Be Kind You cannot do a kindness too soon for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without kindness there can be no true joy.
Thomas Carlyle
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao Tzu
We are made kind by being kind.
Eric Hoffer
Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a kindness.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Plato
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others by means of love friendship indignation and compassion.
Simone de Beauvoir
Man absolutely cannot live by himself.
Erich Fromm
He who lives only for himself is truly dead to others.
Publilius Syrus
You don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.
Albert Schweitzer
Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.
Elbert Hubbard
Self-love and the love of the world constitute hell.
Emmanuel Swedenborg