Quotes by Philosophers - Page 7

One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.
G.K. Chesterton
I have travelled a good deal in Concord.
Henry David Thoreau
Every perfect traveller always creates the country where he travels.
Nikos Kazantzakis
No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and ridiculous.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.
Seneca
O temporal O mores! O what times! what morals!
Cicero
Seize time by the forelock.
Pittacus of Mitylene
These are the times that try men's souls.
Thomas Paine
Enjoy the present day trusting very little to the morrow.
Horace
If after all men cannot always make history have a meaning they can always act so that their own lives have one.
Albert Camus
Almost everything comes from almost nothing.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette.
Henry S. Haskins
From a little spark may burst a mighty flame.
Dante Alighieri
If you wish to reach the highest begin at the lowest.
Publilius Syrus
A terrace nine stories high begins with a pile of earth.
Lao Tzu
We think in generalities but we live in detail.
Alfred North Whitehead
Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.
Edmund Burke
It is in trifles and when he is off his guard that a man best shows his character.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Practice yourself in little things and thence proceed to greater.
Epictetus
Those people work more wisely who seek to achieve good in their own small corner of the world ... than those who are forever thinking that life is in vain unless one can ... do big things.
Herbert Butterfield
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
Well-being is attained little by little and is no little thing itself.
Zeno
Time is a sort of river of passing events and strong is its current no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place and this too will be swept away.
Marcus Aurelius
All things flow nothing abides.
Heraclitus
Time discovered truth.
Seneca
Time and I against any two.
Baltasar Gracián
All movements go too far.
Bertrand Russell
The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours.
Marcus Aurelius
3 o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Nothing really belongs to us but time which even he has who has nothing else.
Baltasar Gracián
Great thoughts come from the heart.
Vauvenargues
The butterfly counts not months but moments And has time enough.
Rabindranath Tagore
Any man may make a mistake none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.
Cicero
Learning without thought is labor lost.
Confucius
I think therefore I am.
René Descartes
He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life.
Henry David Thoreau
To finish the moment to find the journey's end in every step of the road to live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment.
Marcus Aurelius
What you think is an illusion created by your glands your emotions and in the last analysis by the content of your stomach. That gray matter you're so proud of is like a mirror in an amusement park which transmits to you nothing but distorted signals from reality forever beyond your grasp.
Ayn Rand
Profundity of thought belongs to youth clarity of thought to old age.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The thoughts that come often unsought and as it were drop into the mind are commonly the most valuable of any we have.
John Locke
Men use thought only to justify their wrongdoings and speech only to conceal their thoughts.
Voltaire
Thought is born of failure.
Lancelot Law Whyte
We only think when we are confronted with a problem.
John Dewey
Thinking is like loving and dying - each of us must do it for himself.
Josiah Royce
Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.
Albert Schweitzer
The changing year's progressive plan Proclaims mortality to man.
Horace
I have observed on board a steamer how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtation because water has the power of washing away our sense of responsibility and those who on land resemble the oak in their firmness behave like floating seaweed when on the sea.
Rabindranath Tagore
The habit of looking into the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts.
Bertrand Russell
The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.
Epicurus
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
Eric Hoffer
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
Elbert Hubbard
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life not the top.
Robert M. Pirsig
The past and present are only our means the future is always our end. Thus we never really live but only hope to live.
Blaise Pascal
Who knows if the gods above will add tomorrow's span to this day's sum?
Horace
Live wastes itself while we are preparing to live.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have realized that the past and the future are real illusions that they exist only in the present which is what there is and all that there is.
Alan Watts
We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent "here and now " without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.
José Ortega y Gasset
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Albert Camus
As we are always preparing to be happy it is inevitable that we should never be so.
Blaise Pascal