Quotes by Philosophers - Page 44

God the Great Giver can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single lane.
Rabindranath Tagore
What is it: is man only a blunder of God or God only a blunder of man?
Friedrich Nietzsche
A God-intoxicated man.
Novalis
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
How then find the courage for action?... By accepting the human condition more simply and candidly by dreading troubles less calculating less hoping more.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Give an inch he'll take an ell.
Thomas Hobbes
Action makes more fortunes than caution.
Vauvenargues
To be is to do.
Plato
The way to do is to be.
Lao Tzu
To do is to be.
Socrates
The emotions are not always subject to reason ... but they are always subject to action. When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion action will.
William James
It is a common observation that those who dwell continually upon their expectations are apt to become oblivious to the requirements of their actual situation.
Charles Sanders Peirce
The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.
Publilius Syrus
We don't have enough time to premeditate all our actions.
Vauvenargues
He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
Horace
We are always getting ready to live but never living.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action a superior mind exists in torture.
Benedetto Croce
Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.
John Cage
Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more think less and stop watching ourselves live.
Nicolas de Chamfort
Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
Voltaire
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on men unless they act.
G.K. Chesterton
The end of man is action.
Thomas Carlyle
Honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
Aristotle
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
William James
Psychology is action not thinking about oneself.
Albert Camus
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future act now without delay.
Simone de Beauvoir
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
Baltasar Gracián
We Germans will never produce another Goethe but we may produce another Caesar.
Oswald Spengler
We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe can we not take the leap?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
Aristotle
The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.
Friedrich von Schiller
Doing easily what others find is difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
To believe your own thought to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius in truth means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
William James
Play out the game act well your part and if the gods have blundered we will not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The present is great with the future
Baron von Leibnitz
Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in continue firm and constant.
Socrates
I observed once to Goethe ... that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is away. He replied "Yes! because the absent friend is yourself and he exists only in your head whereas the friend who is present has an individuality of his own and moves according to laws of his own which cannot always be in accordance with those which you form for yourself."
Arthur Schopenhauer
The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.
Francis Bacon
Most men's friendships are too inarticulate.
William James
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle
In poverty and other misfortunes of life true friends are a sure refuge.
Aristotle
A friend is as it were a second self.
Cicero
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Mencius
Friend: One who knows all about you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard
Friends are a second existence.
Baltasar Gracián
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Aristotle
It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on without enquiry and almost at first sight the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends the part known gives us evidence enough that the unknown part cannot be much amiss.
George Santayana
He who looks for advantage out of friendship strips it all of its nobility.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
If you press me to say why I loved him I can say no more than because he was he and I was I.
Michel de Montaigne
Friendship like credit is highest where it is not used.
Elbert Hubbard
Shared joys make a friend not shared sufferings.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things human and divine conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.
Cicero
Have no friends not equal to yourself.
Confucius
To associate with other like-minded people in small purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction.
Aldous Huxley
Friendship neither finds nor makes equals.
Publilius Syrus
Wishing to be friends is quick work but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
Aristotle