Quotes by Philosophers - Page 4

The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose not his individuality but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him.
Jean-Paul Sartre
I quote others in order to better express my own self.
Michel de Montaigne
To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
Albert Camus
Begin with another's to end with your own.
Baltasar Gracián
The virtue of adversity is fortitude which in mortals is the heroical virtue.
Francis Bacon
I walk firmer and more secure up hill than down.
Michel de Montaigne
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump you may be freeing him from being a camel.
G.K. Chesterton
In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
Horace
Strong men greet war tempest hard times. They wish as Pindar said to tread the floors of hell with necessities as hard as iron.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful.
E. M. Cioran
Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
Cicero
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it.
Epicurus
This was the penn'worth of his thought.
Nicholas Murray Butler
The harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply we esteem too lightly 'tis dearness only that gives everything its value.
Thomas Paine
And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be rich is not the end but only a change of worries.
Epicurus
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
Michel de Montaigne
What torments of grief you endured from evils that never arrived.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some of your hurts you have cured And the sharpest you still have survived But what torments of grief you endured From the evil which never arrived.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety.
Bertrand Russell
We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse. Harmful are these and evil.
Baruch Spinoza
Worry is a form of fear.
Bertrand A. Russell
Never despair but if you do work on in despair.
Edmund Burke
If your eyes are blinded with your worries you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds.
Voltaire
There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it in expecting evil before it arrives?
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Socrates indeed when he was asked of what country he called himself said "Of the world" for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.
Cicero
This world's a bubble.
Sir Francis Bacon
The world is like a board with holes in it and the square men have got into the round holes and the round into the square.
Bishop Berkeley
Come follow me and leave the world to its babblings.
Dante Alighieri
Good-bye proud world! I'm going home Thou are not my friend I am not thine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Better to wear out than to rust out.
Bishop Cumberland
There is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
Albert Camus
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
Henry David Thoreau
When men are rightly occupied their amusement grows out of their work as the color-petals out of a fruitful flower.
John Ruskin
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
John Ruskin
Give me a man who sings at his work.
Thomas Carlyle
They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.
Francis Bacon
To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness.
John Dewey
The high prize of life the crowning fortune of man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.
John Ruskin
Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run and for most men this comes chiefly through their work.
Bertrand Russell
Employment is nature's physician and is essential to human happiness.
Galen
Work is a substitute "religious" experience for many workaholics.
Mary Daly
For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.
Cicero
There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.
Albert Camus
It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate whose faithful work will answer for him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Work banishes those three great evils boredom vice and poverty.
Voltaire
A man must love a thing very much if he not only practises it without any hope of fame and money but even practises it without any hope of doing it well.
G.K. Chesterton
Man works primarily for his own self-respect and not for others or for profit. . . the person who is working for the sake of his own satisfaction the money he gets in return serves merely as fuel that is as a symbol of reward and recognition in the last analysis of acceptance by one's fellowmen.
Otto Rank
Love of bustle is not industry.
Seneca
We work to become not to acquire.
Elbert Hubbard
Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man's life the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all his other values. Reason is the source the precondition of his productive work - pride is the result.
Ayn Rand
Beware all enterprises that require new clothes.
Henry David Thoreau
The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure with which it can provide us or the pain against which it can protect us.
Paul Tillich
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
Thomas Carlyle
He that can work is a born king of something.
Thomas Carlyle
Work is of two kinds: first altering a position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter second telling other people to do so. The first kind is unpleasant and ill-paid the second is pleasant and highly paid.
Bertrand Russell
Routine is the god of every social system it is the seventh heaven of business the essential component in the success of every factory the ideal of every statesman.
Alfred North Whitehead