Quotes by Philosophers - Page 48

Every generation laughs at the old fashions but religiously follows the new.
Henry David Thoreau
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
Michel Montaigne
Friends will not only live in harmony but in melody.
Henry David Thoreau
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Albert Schweitzer
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus
What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it.
Seneca
A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
Henry David Thoreau
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
So like a forgotten fire a childhood can always flare up again within us.
Gaston Bachelard
The great man is he that does not lose his child-heart.
Mencius
What God is to the world parents are to their children.
Philo
A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Blessed be childhood which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.
Henri Amiel
The last step in parental love involves the release of the beloved the willing cutting of the cord that would otherwise keep the child in a state of emotional dependence.
Lewis Mumford
Family love is messy clinging and of an annoying and repetitive pattern like bad wallpaper.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Fame is but the breath of the people and that often unwholesome.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
Socrates
What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
Voltaire
All the fame I look for in life is to have lived it quietly.
Michel de Montaigne
The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.
George Steiner
Speak to me of love said St Francis to the almond tree and the tree blossomed.
Nicholas Kazantzakis
AH I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love blinds us to faults hatred to virtues.
Moses Ibn Ezra
Give all to love obey thy heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To win true peace a man needs to feel himself directed pardoned and sustained by a supreme power to feel himself in the right road at the point where God would have him be-in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Religious faith indeed relates to that which is above us but it must arise from that which is within us.
Josiah Royce
Faith is one of the forces by which men live the total absence of it means collapse.
William James
Love means to commit oneself without guarantee to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Erich Fromm
The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited but was defined before it existed.
G.K. Chesterton
Faith may be relied upon to produce sustained action and more rarely sustained contemplation.
Aldous Huxley
Faith is a gift of God.
Blaise Pascal
The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith is primarily a process of identification the process by which the individual ceases to be himself and becomes part of something eternal.
Eric Hoffer
To me faith means not worrying.
John Dewey
Faith is a gift of God which man can neither give nor take away by promise of rewards or menaces of torture.
Thomas Hobbes
Faith is the summit of the Torah.
Solomon ibn Gabirol
Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by and turned to the infinite.
Paul Tillich
Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher some spiritual hero.
Thomas Carlyle
Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.
Baruch Spinoza
Faith is a certitude without proofs ... a sentiment for it is a hope it is an instinct for it precedes all outward instruction.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Faith is a practical attitude of the will.
John MacMurray
Faith is a total attitude of the self.
John Macquarrie
Without risk faith is an impossibility.
Søren Kierkegaard
To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and furthermore it is to act as if He did exist.
Miguel de Unamuno
Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.
Miguel de Unamuno
It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles.
Blaise Pascal
Faith is believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
Voltaire
Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can go only so far but faith has no limits.
Blaise Pascal
It is the heart which experiences God and not the reason.
Blaise Pascal
He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them.
Lao Tzu
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others by means of love friendship indignation and compassion.
Simone de Beauvoir
Don't lose faith in humanity: think of all the people in the United States who have never played you a single nasty trick.
Elbert Hubbard
We must have infinite faith in each other.
Henry David Thoreau
Faith declares what the senses do not see but not the contrary of what they see.
Blaise Pascal
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A believer a mind whose faith is consciousness is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard
An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
John Cage
Losses are comparative imagination only makes them of any moment.
Blaise Pascal