Quotes by Philosophers - Page 43

God has many names though He is only one Being.
Aristotle
It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.
Henry David Thoreau
God enters by a private door into every individual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To Be is to live with God.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To them that ask where have you seen the Gods or how do you know for certain there are Gods that you are so devout in their worship? I answer: Neither have I ever seen my own soul and yet I respect and honor it.
Marcus Aurelius
Every conjecture we can form with regard to the works of God has as little probability as the conjectures of a child with regard to the works of a man.
Thomas Reid
The most beautiful of all emblems is that of God whom Timaeus of Locris describes under the image of "A circle whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere."
Voltaire
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgement passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
William James
Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow and to love Him as they love their cow-for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort.
Meister Eckhart
God is an unutterable sigh planted in the depths of the soul.
Jean Paul Richter
God that dumping ground of our dreams.
Jean Rostand
The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
Friedrich Nietzsche
If triangles had a God he would have three sides.
Baron de Montesquieu
If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent him.
Voltaire
If God made us in his image we have certainly returned the compliment.
Voltaire
It is left only to God and to the angels to be lookers on.
Francis Bacon
The more of himself man attributes to God the less he has left in himself.
Karl Marx
God when he makes the prophet does not unmake the man.
John Locke
God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
Voltaire
The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.
Marcus Aurelius
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
William James
I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.
Dante Alighieri
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
Happy the man who knows his duties!
Christian Furchtegott Gellert
When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty ihen happiness comes of itself.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
Marcus Aurelius
Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.
José Ortega y Gasset
We aim above the mark to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood or exaggeration in it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore though they should fall immediately they had better aim at something high.
Henry David Thoreau
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
Vauvenargues
There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.
Erich Fromm
Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.
G.K. Chesterton
All men seek one goal: success or happiness.
Aristotle
Pleasure is the object duty and the goal of all rational creatures.
Voltaire
The true object of human life is play.
G.K. Chesterton
First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus
You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do-or don't do.
Simone de Beauvoir
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
Life has a value only when it has something valuable as its object.
George Hegel
What most counts is not to live but to live aright.
Socrates
The soul that has no established aim loses itself.
Michel de Montaigne
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with a purpose.
Michel de Montaigne
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
Michel de Montaigne
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen few in pursuit of the goal.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There's some end at last for the man who follows a path mere rambling is interminable.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
G.K. Chesterton
Not only must we be good but we must also be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.
Marcus Aurelius
Without a purpose nothing should be done.
Marcus Aurelius
To grow and know what one is growing towards-that is the source of all strength and confidence in life.
James Baillie
To live means to have ... a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something we make it empty.
José Ortega y Gasset
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for no wind is the right wind.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
Michel de Montaigne
Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.
Edmund Burke
Accept the place the divine providence has found for you the society of your contemporaries the connection of events.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All rising to great places is by a winding stair.
Francis Bacon
If there were no God it would be necessary to invent him.
Voltaire
Every ceiling when reached becomes a floor upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Aldous Huxley
The divine essence itself is love and wisdom.
Emmanuel Swedenborg