Quotes by Philosophers - Page 5

If you want a work well done select a busy man: the other kind has no time.
Elbert Hubbard
They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.
Aldous Huxley
No matter how eloquently a dog may bark he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest.
Bertrand Russell
All work is seed sown. It grows and spreads and sows itself anew.
Thomas Carlyle
Words are feminine deeds are masculine.
Baltasar Gracián
Language is the armoury of the human mind and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Let it not be said that I have said nothing new. The arrangement of the material is new.
Blaise Pascal
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
You (Pindar) who possessed the talent of speaking much without saying anything.
Voltaire
The word is half his that speaks and half his that hears it.
Michel de Montaigne
We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are the signs of our ideas only and not for things themselves.
John Locke
A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises from words.
Edmund Burke
Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wonder is the basis of worship.
Thomas Carlyle
If a man would move the world he must first move himself.
Socrates
All know the way few actually walk it.
Bodhidharma
He who begun has half done. Dare to be wise begin.
Horace
The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men ... and why on the contrary they are inferior to men as regards justice and less honourable and conscientious.
Schopenhauer
A woman either loves or hates: she knows no medium.
Syrus
Honor women! they entwine and weave heavenly roses in our earthly life.
Friedrich von Schiller
There are no ugly women there are only women who do not know how to look pretty.
Jean de La Bruyère
Simpson succeeded in proving that there was no harm in giving anaesthetics to men because God put Adam into a deep sleep when He extracted his rib. But male ecclesiastics remained unconvinced as regards the sufferings of women at any rate in childbirth.
Bertrand Russell
When thou goest to woman take thy whip.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold?
Friedrich Nietzsche
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
Baltasar Gracián
One is not born a woman - one becomes one.
Simone de Beauvoir
Why should human females become sterile in their forties while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?
Aldous Huxley
A woman's strength is the irresistible might of weakness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Belief in form but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.
Aristotle
A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own.
Jean de La Bruyère
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole Its body brevity and wit its soul.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
As for me all I know is that I know nothing.
Socrates
The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.
Baltasar Gracián
The wisdom of our ancestors.
Edmund Burke
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one no less wise to balance it.
George Santayana
A wise man sees as much as he ought not as much as he can.
Michel de Montaigne
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Elbert Hubbard
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Baltasar Gracián
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Henry David Thoreau
Not to know certain things is a great part of wisdom.
Hugo Grotius
The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James
There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
Epictetus
A sage has one advantage he is immortal. If this is not his century many others will be.
Baltasar Gracián
A wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interests than it is theirs to find his weak point.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The will is the strong blind man who carries on his shoulders the lame man who can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Where the willingness is great the difficulties cannot be great.
Niccolò Machiavelli
Victory - a matter of staying power.
Elbert Hubbard
The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The sun also shines on the wicked.
Seneca
Wives are young men's mistresses companions for middle age and old men's nurses.
Sir Francis Bacon
Men are always wicked at bottom unless they are made good by some compulsion.
Niccolò Machiavelli
All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca
Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.
Rabindranath Tagore
Sleeping is no mean art. For its sake one must stay awake all day.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Westward the course of empire takes its way.
Bishop Berkeley