Quotes by Philosophers - Page 6

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces sleep.
Aldous Huxley
Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance arms us with terrible freedom so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge yet not the details but the quality. What part does he play in them - a cheerful manly part or a poor drivelling part? However monstrous and grotesque their apparitions they have a substantial truth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All wealth is the product of labor
John Locke
No good man ever became suddenly rich.
Syrus
Riches either serve or govern the possessor.
Horace
It is wealth to be content.
Lao Tzu
Having given all he had He then is very rich indeed.
Lao Tzu
Sleep riches and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted.
Jean Paul Richter
The first wealth is health.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
War never leaves where it found a nation.
Edmund Burke
By the rude bridge that arched the flood Their flag to April's breeze unfurl'd Here once the embattl'd farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community and until an equivalent discipline is organized I believe that war must have its way.
William James
Vice stirs up war virtue fights.
Vauvenargues
When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of U.S.A. - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.
Marshall McLuhan
They will conquer but they will not convince.
Miguel de Unamuno
So long as the anti-militarists propose no substitute for war's disciplinary function no moral equivalent of war analogous as one might say to the mechanical equivalent of hate so long they fail to realize the full equities of the situation.
William James
Good things when short are twice as good.
Baltasar Gracián
When there is no vision people perish.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A fair day's wages for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of government.
Thomas Carlyle
Dream lofty dreams and as you dream so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall at last unveil.
John Ruskin
Ascetic: one who makes a necessity of virtue.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Honor is the reward of virtue.
Cicero
Virtue is like a rich stone best plain set.
Sir Francis Bacon
If virtue were its own reward it would no longer be a human quality but supernatural.
Vauvenargues
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When virtue has slept she will get up more refreshed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The sun though it passes through dirty places yet remains as pure as before.
Francis Bacon
I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue.
Albert Camus
Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation violence is the natural recourse.
Marshall McLuhan
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
Michel Montaigne
Vice can be learnt even without a teacher.
Seneca
When I religiously confess myself to myself I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.
Michel de Montaigne
It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody scarcely less to be of use to everybody.
Baltasar Gracián
Many without punishment none without sin.
John Ray
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russell
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
Simone Weil
All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.
Blaise Pascal
O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
Francis Bacon
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
Edmund Burke
There are truths that are not for all men nor for all times.
Voltaire
I speak the truth not so much as I would but as much as I dare and I dare a little more as I grow older.
Michel de Montaigne
We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
Albert Camus
It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear.
Henry David Thoreau
Between whom there is hearty truth there is love.
Henry David Thoreau
The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority.
Paul Tillich
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed in the second it is opposed in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The truth is cruel but it can be loved and it makes free those who have loved it.
George Santayana
There are no whole truths. All truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
Alfred North Whitehead
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley
Truth always lags last limping along on the arm of Time.
Baltasar Gracián
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.
Henry David Thoreau
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
The more I see of other countries the more I love my own.
Mme. De Stael
Before he sets out the traveller must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel. If he drifted aimlessly from country to country he would not travel but only wander ramble as a tramp. The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere so his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.
George Santayana
The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know one must be an actor as well as a spectator.
Aldous Huxley