Quotes by Philosophers - Page 42

Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar it never fails of doing justice upon itself for every guilty person is his own hangman.
Seneca
He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.
Syrus
Custom is second nature and no less powerful.
Michel Eyquem Montaigne
Custom reconciles us to everything.
Edmund Burke
Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain tricks of custom: but of all these perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous by simple repetition ceases to be miraculous.
Thomas Carlyle
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
Cicero
There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.
Cicero
The only cure for grief is action.
G. H. Lewes
For greed all nature is too little.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
Erich Fromm
He who is greedy is always in want.
Horace
Ambition if it feeds at all does so on the ambition of others.
Susan Sontag
The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.
Jean de La Bruyère
The great are great only because we are on our knees. Let us rise!
Max Stirner
The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.
Vauvenargues
All great men come out of the middle classes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
Thomas Carlyle
It is not the strength but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men.
Friedrich Nietzsche
To do great things is difficult but to command great things is more difficult.
Friedrich Nietzsche
If you want to know your true opinion of someone watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
Arthur Schopenhauer
His eminence was due to the flatness of the surrounding landscape.
John Stuart Mill
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
Lewis Mumford
A great man stands on God. A small man stands on a great man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Calmness is always Godlike.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Albert Schweitzer
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid but which none have a right to expect.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
He who receives a good turn should never forget it he who does one should never remember it.
Pierre Charron
I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tombs of the Capulets.
Edmund Burke
Every nation has the government that it deserves.
Joseph de Maistre
Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. (Don't overdo it.)
Lao-Tsze
No man undertakes a trade he has not learned even the meanest yet every one thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades - that of government.
Socrates
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
Edmund Burke
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury monarchies by poverty.
Baron de Montesquieu
Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium of custom of inertia it is by no means a representative of reason.
George Santayana
The foremost art of kings is the power to endure hatred.
Seneca
The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.
Friedrich von Schiller
Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one.
Thomas Paine
In the long run every government is the exact symbol of its people with their wisdom and unwisdom.
Thomas Carlyle
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
Voltaire
The majority is the best way because it is visible and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.
Blaise Pascal
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Bertrand Russell
Giving is the highest expression of potency.
Erich Fromm
Wise men appreciate all men for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good.
Baltasar Gracián
If I knew ... that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good I should run for my life.
Henry David Thoreau
Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactor.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
As Charles Lamb says there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident so I now say it is even nicer to make heroic decisions and to be prevented by 'circumstances beyond your control' from ever trying to execute them.
William James
Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving mercy?
Friedrich Nietzsche
There is no man so good who were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
Michel de Montaigne
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards I should call him a good shot but not necessarily a good man.
G.K. Chesterton
Good things when short are twice as good.
Baltasar Gracián
In nature nothing can be given all things are sold.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The meaning of good and bad of better and worse is simply helping or hurting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you do not want others to do to you do not do to others.
Confucius
What is there in man so worthy of honor and reverence as this that he is capable of contemplating something higher than his own reason more sublime than the whole universe- that Spirit which alone is self-subsis-tent from which all truth proceeds without which there is no truth?
Friedrich Jacobi
Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was but it does not matter it does not affect one's faith.
Abraham Heschel
You are accepted! ... accepted by that which is greater than you and the name of which you do not know. Do not ask the name now perhaps you will know it later. Do not try to do anything perhaps later you will do much. Do not seek for anything do not perform anything do not intend anything. Simply accept the fact that you are accepted.
Paul Tillich
A true love of God must begin with a delight in his holiness.
Jonathan Edwards
Fhe Creator and Lord of all so loved the world that He sent His Son for its salvation the Prince and Savior of the faithful who washed and dried our wounds and from Him also came that most sweet medicine from which all the good things of salvation flow.
Hildegard of Bingen