Quotes by Philosophers - Page 53

Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past that is about to disappear without having so much as a smile for the young future.
Simone de Beauvoir
All that philosophers have done is interpret the world in different ways. It is our job to change it.
Karl Marx
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs or impede their efforts to obtain it.
John Stuart Mill
For what avail the plough or sail Or land or life if freedom fail?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man of courage is also full of faith.
Cicero
Women and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves but the first to rescue when others are endangered.
Jean Paul Richter
Truth is not introduced into the individual from without but was within him all the time.
Søren Kierkegaard
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.
Marcus Aurelius
God gives us always strength enough and sense enough for everything He wants us to do.
John Ruskin
Courage is a kind of salvation.
Plato
Courage is the virtue which champions the cause of right.
Cicero
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
G.K. Chesterton
Courage consists of the power of self-recovery.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man has his own courage and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
How then find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness spontaneity instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively good and useful. ... By accepting the human condition more simply and candidly by dreading troubles less calculating less hoping more.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.
Henry S. Haskins
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.
G.K. Chesterton
He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.
Vauvenargues
Necessity does the work of courage.
Nicholas Murray Butler
Optimism is the foundation of courage.
Nicholas Murray Butler
Courage is sustained by calling up anew the vision of the goal.
A. G. Sertillanges
To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
Confucius
Men perish by the sword cowards by disease.
Phillippus
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Plato
Courage leads starward fear toward death.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Courage is a scorner of things which inspire fear.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.
Michel de Montaigne
We ought to face our destiny with courage.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
Horace
Do not be too timid and squeamish. ... All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge without courage is sterile.
Baltasar Gracián
Where there is a brave man in the thickest of the fight there is the post of honor.
Henry David Thoreau
To see what is right and not do it is want of courage.
Confucius
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much the master of the world as he who is ready to die.
Giacomo Leopardi
Whatever you do you need courage. ... To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently but to live manfully.
Thomas Carlyle
We must have the courage to be happy.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires ... courage.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
Alfred North Whitehead
Valor is stability not of legs and arms but of courage and the soul.
Michel de Montaigne
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
Hannah Arendt
Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.
Georges Gurdjieff
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes but is a reward in itself.
Simone de Beauvoir
Knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
The frontiers are not east or west north or south but wherever a man fronts a fact.
Henry David Thoreau
It is courage courage courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity!
Horace
The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else and run away even before he comes near them the fly lights upon his very nose.
Arthur Schopenhauer
A great man is one who seizes the vital issue in a complex question what we might call the jugular vein of the whole organism and spends his energies upon that.
Joseph Rickaby
Fools through false shame conceal their open wounds.
Horace
The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success comes only later.
Confucius
Confidence ... is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.
John Dewey
Courage is the best slayer-courage which attacketh for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Fortune reveres the brave and overwhelms the cowardly.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead for she is wont to favor the bold.
Baltasar Gracián
Audacity augments courage hesitation fear.
Publilius Syrus
In times of stress be bold and valiant.
Horace
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
Seneca