Quotes by Philosophers - Page 58

If you are surprised at the number of our maladies count our cooks.
Seneca
The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
Xenophon
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Søren Kierkegaard
Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.
Paul Tillich
No sensible person ever made an apology.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded but the fear of pain or death.
Epictetus
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
William James
It is not death we fear but the thought of it.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell
It is not death that a man should fear he should fear never beginning to live.
Marcus Aurelius
Victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.
Nicholas Berdyaev
He is much to be dreaded who stands in dread of poverty.
Publilius Syrus
There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.
Vauvenargues
We are terrified by the idea of being terrified.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard
The thing we fear we bring to pass.
Elbert Hubbard
What we fear comes to pass more speedily than what we hope.
Publilius Syrus
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
He who fears he shall suffer already suffers what he fears.
Michel de Montaigne
To his dog every man is Napoleon hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Aldous Huxley
No animal admires another animal.
Blaise Pascal
Anger makes dull men witty but it keeps them poor.
Francis Bacon
Anger is momentary madness so control your passion or it will control you.
Horace
A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A degenerate nobleman or one that is proud of his birth is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.
Nicholas Murray Butler
There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgement as doth anger.
Michel de Montaigne
Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.
George Santayana
America is a country of young men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
G.K. Chesterton
The greatest American superstition is belief in facts.
Hermann Keyserling
The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach.
Ayn Rand
Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
Lewis Mumford
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
Marshall McLuhan
The real America that Whitman proclaimed and Thoreau decoded.
Allen Ginsberg
That strange blend of the commercial traveller the missionary and the barbarian conqueror which was the American abroad.
Olaf Stapledon
When you are aspiring to the highest place it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
Cicero
If you wish to reach the highest begin at the lowest.
Syrus
Hitch your wagon to a star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
Jean Paul Richter
The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines.
Plato
Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo The Last Puritan and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my middle age I have drunk the pleasure of life more pure more joyful than it ever was when mingled with all the hidden anxieties and little annoyances of actual living. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.
George Santayana
An old codger rampant and still learning.
Aldous Huxley
Old age is by nature rather talkative.
Cicero
Old age especially an honoured old age has so great authority that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
Cicero
Before you contradict an old man my fair friend you should endeavour to understand him.
George Santayana
The individual succumbs but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
Will Durant
The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one.
Simone de Beauvoir
I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
Voltaire
It is time to be old To take in sail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
But Lord Crist! whan that it remembreth me Upon my yowthe and on my jolitee It tickleth me aboute myn herte roote. Unto this day it dooth myn herte boote That I have had my world as in my tyme. But age alias! that al wole envenyme Hath me biraft my beautee and my pith. Lat go farewel! the devel go therwith! The flour is goon ther is namoore to telle The bren as I best kan now most I selle.
Geoffrey Chaucer
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
The first forty years of life give us the text the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Schopenhauer
Old wood best to burn old wine to drink old friends to trust and old authors to read.
Sir Francis Bacon
Many receive advice only the wise profit by it.
Syrus
Admonish your friends privately but praise them openly.
Syrus
Simplicity simplicity simplicity. I say let your affairs be as two or three and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen and keep your accounts on your thumbnail.
Henry David Thoreau
Whatever advice you give be short.
Horace
The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough.
Thomas Carlyle