Quotes by Philosophers - Page 47

There is no wealth but life.
John Ruskin
That which does not kill me makes me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect... and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances.
Abraham Tucker
When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world I thank God I am alive.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing so bitter that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness or else forgiving another.
Jean Paul Richter
We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.
Elbert Hubbard
Fire destroys that which feeds it.
Simone Weil
Whom they have injured they also hate.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Anger is a short madness.
Horace
The human heart in its perversity finds it hard to escape hatred and revenge.
Moses Luzzatto
Hate is a prolonged form of suicide.
Douglas V. Steere
Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Grace fills empty spaces but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it and it is grace itself which makes this void.
Simone Weil
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius
If a man take no thought about what is distant he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius
He who thinks himself wise O heavens! is a great fool.
Voltaire
Force and not opinion is the queen of the world but it is opinion that uses the force.
Pascal
It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
Voltaire
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Elbert Hubbard
With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
Friedrich von Schiller
To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.
Cicero
To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.
Nicholas Murray Butler
A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.
Seneca
The folly of one man is the fortune of another.
Sir Francis Bacon
It is easy to flatter it is harder to praise.
Jean Paul Richter
Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire.
Horace
Fear always springs from ignorance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear is secured by a dread of punishment.
Niccolò Machiavelli
Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
Voltaire
We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All forms of fear produce fatigue.
Bertrand Russell
Fear is the main source of superstition and one of the main sources of cruelty.
Bertrand Russell
No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear.
Cicero
If we let things terrify us life will not be worth living.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Where fear is happiness is not.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
No passion so effectively robs the mind of its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke
What begins in fear usually ends in folly.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
Bertrand Russell
Nothing is terrible except fear itself.
Francis Bacon
The thing I fear most is fear.
Michel de Montaigne
There is no devil but fear.
Elbert Hubbard
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke
Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.
Henry David Thoreau
This is the century of fear.
Albert Camus
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain whether of our worth or worthlessness we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.
Eric Hoffer
Men hesitate less to injure a man who makes himself loved than to injure one who makes himself feared for their love is held by a chain of obligation which because of men's wickedness is broken on every occasion for the sake of selfish profit but their fear is secured by a dread of punishment.
Niccolò Machiavelli
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Albert Camus
A fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
Aldous Huxley
Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.
Seneca
He who does not desire or fear the uncertain day or capricious fate is equal to the gods above and loftier than mortals.
Justus Lipsius
The greatest of faults I should say is to be conscious of none.
Thomas Carlyle
Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
Marcus Aurelius
Certain signs precede certain events.
Cicero
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever limits us we call Fate.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.
Jean de La Bruyère
Even knowledge has to be in fashion and where it is not it is wise to affect ignorance.
Baltasar Gracián