Quotes by Philosophers - Page 56

Competition means decentralized planning by many separate persons.
Friedrich Hayek
Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the business man.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Mere parsimony is not economy . . . expense and great expense may be an essential part of true economy.
Edmund Burke
No-wher so bisy a man as he ter nas And yet he semed bisier that he was.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Capital is dead labor that vampirelike lives only by sucking living labor and lives the more the more labor it suck.
Karl Marx
You can be a French Canadian or an English Canadian but not a Canadian. We know how to live without an identity and this is one of our marvellous resources.
Marshall McLuhan
Canada has no cultural unity no linguistic unity no religious unity no economic unity no geographic unity. All it has is unity.
Kenneth Boulding
The first time I ever felt the necessity or inevitableness of verse was in the desire to reproduce the peculiar quality of feeling which is induced by the flat spaces and wide horizons of the virgin prairie of western Canada.
T.E. Hulme
Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.
Publilius Syrus
Calumny is a vice of curious constitution trying to kill it keeps it alive leave it to itself and it will die a natural death.
Thomas Paine
There is hardly anything in the world that some man can't make a little worse and sell a little cheaper and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.
John Ruskin
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
Nicholas M. Butler
God helps the brave.
Friedrich von Schiller
A boy is of all wild beasts the most difficult to manage.
Plato
Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.
Cicero
Debt is a bottomless sea.
Thomas Carlyle
Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Friedrich Nietzsche
When people are bored it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.
Eric Hoffer
The one sure means of dealing with boredom is to care for someone else to do something kind and good.
Theodore Haecker
Man is the only animal that can be bored.
Erich Fromm
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist since at least half of the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Bertrand Russell
Man lives by habits indeed but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.
William James
One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom not knowing what to do with oneself and one's life. Even if man had no monetary or any other reward he would be eager to spend his energy in some meaningful way because he could not stand the boredom which inactivity produces.
Erich Fromm
Boredom is rage spread thin.
Paul Tillich
Either you reach a higher point today or you exercise your strength in order to be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
Voltaire
Sunshine is delicious rain is refreshing wind braces us snow is exhilarating there is no such thing as bad weather only different kinds of good weather.
John Ruskin
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We look wishfully to emergencies to eventful revolutionary times ... and think how easy to have taken our part when the drum was rolling and the house was burning over our heads.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
They sicken of the calm that know the storm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Bertrand Russell
When people are bored it is primarily with their own selves.
Eric Hoffer
A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.
Jean Paul Richter
Some books are to be tasted others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.
Sir Francis Bacon
All the known world excepting only savage nations is governed by books.
Voltaire
Some books are to be tasted others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.
Francis Bacon
If a book is worth reading it is worth buying.
John Ruskin
I hate books they teach us only to talk about what we do not know.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.
Marshall McLuhan
The telephone book is full of facts but it doesn't contain a single idea.
Mortimer J. Adler
In the case of good books the point is not to see how many of them you can get through but rather how many can get through to you.
Mortimer J. Adler
Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle
Any book which is at all important should be re-read immediately.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves to multiply the ways in which they exist to make their life full significant and interesting.
Aldous Huxley
Books are the most mannerly of companions accessible at all times in all moods frankly declaring the author's mind without offense.
Amos Bronson Alcott
The fact of knowing how to read is nothing the whole point is knowing what to read.
Jacques Ellul
Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no cant in it no excess of explanation and it is full of suggestions the raw material of possible poems and histories.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.
Plato
A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul a sick body is a prison.
Sir Francis Bacon
Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.
Marshall McLuhan
As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen so are all innovations which are the births of time.
Francis Bacon
Biography is the only true history.
Thomas Carlyle
Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.
Thomas Carlyle
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
Michel Montaigne
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato
Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable and praised when they are not praiseworthy.
Bertrand Russell
The first step my son which one makes in the world is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
Voltaire
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless peacocks and lilies for instance.
John Ruskin
Well begun is half done.
Horace