Quotes by Philosophers - Page 50

The cautious seldom err.
Confucius
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Sum up at night what thou has done by day.
Edward Herbert
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Vigor is contagious and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Henry David Thoreau
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.
Nicholas Murray Butler
Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.
Vauvenargues
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
The world belongs to the energetic.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give me a man who sings at his work.
Thomas Carlyle
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
George Hegel
All passions exaggerate it is because they do that they are passions.
Nicolas de Chamfort
Passion though a bad regulator is a powerful spring.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What hunger is in relation to food zest is in relation to life.
Bertrand Russell
What one has one ought to use and whatever he does he should do with all his might.
Cicero
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action nor motive to act.
Claude Helvetius
The great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.
Mencius
Only passions great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
Denis Diderot
My enthusiasms ... constitute my reserves my unexploited resources perhaps my future.
E. M. Cioran
The superfluous is very necessary.
Voltaire
The true spirit of delight the exultation the sense of being more than Man which is the touchstone of the highest excellence is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
Bertrand Russell
To be able to use leisure intelligently will be the last product of an intelligent civilization.
Bertrand Russell
Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.
G.K. Chesterton
Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Aldous Huxley
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
Henry David Thoreau
The test of pleasure is the memory it leaves behind. (Die Probe Eines Genusses ist Seine Erinnerung.)
Jean Paul Richter
Froth at the top dregs at bottom but the middle excellent.
Voltaire
One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humour.
Marshall McLuhan
I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
England is the paradise of individuality eccentricity heresy anomalies hobbies and humours.
George Santayana
England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.
Voltaire
Not only England but every Englishman is an island.
Novalis
Man is his own worst enemy.
Cicero
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Eric Hoffer
My prayer to God is a very short one "Oh Lord make my enemies ridiculous!" God has granted it.
Voltaire
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is more to me than myself.
Max Stirner
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
G.K. Chesterton
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Baltasar Gracián
Do you wish men to speak well of you? Then never speak well of yourself.
Pascal
What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?
Cicero
The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education but the means of education.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All learning has an emotional base.
Plato
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance that imitation is suicide that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal and no liberal education which is not technical.
Alfred North Whitehead
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
John Ruskin
The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.
Antisthenes
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
George Santayana
Education with inert ideas is not only useless it is above all things harmful.
Alfred North Whitehead
We should not value education as a means to prosperity but prosperity as a means to education. Only then will our priorities be right. For education unlike prosperity is an end in itself. .. power and influence come through the acquisition of useless knowledge. . . irrelevant subjects bring understanding of the human condition by forcing the student to stand back from it.
Roger Scruton
When there are two PhD's in a developing country one is Head of State and the other is in exile.
Lord Samuel
I pay the School Master but 'tis the school boys that educate my son.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The things taught in schools are not an education but the means of an education.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying.
Friedrich Nietzsche
He who will not economize will have to agonize.
Confucius
Thou shouldst eat to live not live to eat.
Cicero
Water is the only drink for a wise man.
Henry David Thoreau
So nigh is grandeur to our dust So near is God to man. When Duty whispers low Thou must The youth replies I can.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year for it is wrong to add fire to fire.
Plato