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• Abraham MaslowIt is quite true that man lives by bread alone—when there…
• Abraham MaslowThe story of the human race is the story of men and women…
• Abraham MaslowThe peak experience is the highest happiness, the most…
• Abraham MaslowWe fear our highest possibilities as well as our lowest…
• Abraham MaslowA musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet…
• Abraham MaslowThe self-actualizing person is realistically oriented,…
• Adam SmithAll money is a matter of belief.
• Adam SmithBy pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of…
• Adam SmithConsumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.
• Adam SmithHow selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently…
• Adam SmithIt is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer,…
• Adam SmithLittle else is requisite to carry a state to the highest…
• Adam SmithMan is an animal that makes bargains.
• Adam SmithNo society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which…
• Adam SmithScience is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm…
• Adam SmithThe man of system is apt to be very wise in his own conceit.
• Adam SmithThe real price of every thing... is the toil and trouble of…
• Adam SmithWe are ruined not by what we really want, but by what we…
• Adi ShankaraWorship Govinda, worship Govinda, O fool; when death draws…
• Adi ShankaraThe body, the senses, and the mind are not the Self, for…
• Adi ShankaraBrahman alone is real; the world is appearance; the…
• Adi ShankaraThe teacher who speaks in silence removes doubts; the one…
• Adi ShankaraDesire for sense objects is the root of suffering, and the…
• Adi ShankaraFear arises from the second; where there is no second,…
• Adi ShankaraThe guru is Brahma, the guru is Vishnu, the guru is Shiva;…
• Adi ShankaraLiberation is attained through knowledge alone, not through…
• Adi ShankaraThe one who knows Brahman becomes Brahman, and is liberated…
• Adi ShankaraThe mind is the cause of bondage and of liberation.
• Adi ShankaraNo action, however great, can destroy ignorance; only the…
• Adi ShankaraThere is only one reality without a second, and all…
• Adi ShankaraRebirth and death are a sea without shore; the wise cross…
• Adi ShankaraRare are three things, which come only through the grace of…
• Adi ShankaraAgain birth, again death, again rest in the mother's womb:…
• Adi ShankaraAs a rope is mistaken for a snake in the dark, so the Self…
• Adi ShankaraThe Self is never the object of knowledge, for it is the…
• Adi ShankaraIgnorance is the superimposition of the non-self upon the…
• Adi ShankaraWealth brings only delusion; there is no happiness in…
• Adi ShankaraWho are you? Whence have you come? Who is your father, and…
• Al-FarabiHappiness is the good that is sought for its own sake and…
• Al-FarabiIgnorance is not merely the absence of knowledge, but a…
• Al-FarabiMan's ultimate perfection consists in reaching happiness…
• Al-FarabiThe excellent city resembles the perfect and healthy body,…
• Al-FarabiThe ranks of the citizens of the virtuous city differ…
• Al-FarabiThe soul is not a body, nor is it imprinted in a body.
• Al-FarabiThe theoretical virtues consist in the sciences whose…
• Al-GhazaliCertainty is not attained save through the total mastery of…
• Al-GhazaliHe who does not know his own self, will still less know the…
• Al-GhazaliI began to examine the objects of my own knowledge, and…
• Al-GhazaliKnowledge without action is wastefulness, and action…
• Al-GhazaliMan's chief good, in this world and the next, consists in…
• Al-GhazaliThe disease is skepticism, and its cure is the fear of God.
• Al-GhazaliThe final aim and object of knowledge is action, and action…
• Al-GhazaliThe knower of God is one who knows himself.
• Al-GhazaliThe proof of the pudding is in the eating.
• Al-GhazaliThe real is not made real by our belief in it, nor is the…
• Al-GhazaliThe world is a mirror in which the wise see God.
• Al-GhazaliWhoever knows himself, knows his Lord.
• al-KhwarizmiWhat is easy and useful in arithmetic, such as men…
• al-KhwarizmiAl-jabr is the restoring of what is missing, and…
• al-KindiThe most noble of the arts is philosophy, and the highest…
• al-KindiWe should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth and to…
• Albert CamusThe absurd is the essential concept and the only truth. Man…
• Albert CamusCapital punishment is an admission of failure. It reflects…
• Albert CamusIf there is no God, if all things are permitted, I am…
• Albert CamusRebellion must be limited. There are values—human dignity,…
• Albert CamusLiving is the opposite of being chronically unhappy. The…
• Albert CamusThere is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and…
• Albert CamusWhen plague strikes, people are forced to recognize their…
• Albert CamusRevolt is the assertion of human dignity in the face of the…
• Albert CamusOne must imagine Sisyphus happy. The struggle itself toward…
• Albert EinsteinThe important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity…
• Albert EinsteinGod does not play dice with the universe.
• Albert EinsteinImagination is more important than knowledge.
• Alexis de TocquevilleA democratic government is the only one in which those who…
• Alexis de TocquevilleAmerica is great because she is good, and if America ever…
• Alexis de TocquevilleAmericans of all ages, all conditions, and all dispositions…
• Alexis de TocquevilleI know of no country in which there is so little…
• Alexis de TocquevilleIn democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for one…
• Alexis de TocquevilleThe American Republic will endure until the day Congress…
• Alexis de TocquevilleThe despotism of democratic republics may be more…
• Alexis de TocquevilleThe greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened…
• Alexis de TocquevilleThe health of a democratic society may be measured by the…
• Alexis de TocquevilleThe tyranny of the majority
• Alfred AdlerThe only child has advantages and disadvantages. Without…
• Alfred AdlerThe three great life tasks are work, love, and social…
• Alfred AdlerAn inferiority complex does not consist of the inferiority…
• Alfred AdlerTo be a human being means to possess a feeling of…
• Alfred AdlerMeanings are not determined by situations, but we determine…
• Alfred AdlerCourage, as evidenced by the ability to contribute to human…
• AnaximanderThe first principle is the boundless, the apeiron, and it…
• AnaximanderThe boundless has neither beginning nor end, for it is the…
• AnaximanderThe earth is cylindrical in shape, with a depth one third…
• AnaximanderThe earth remains at rest because it is equidistant from…
• AnaximanderEclipses occur when the openings through which the heavenly…
• AnaximanderHe introduced the gnomon, the upright sundial, into Greece…
• AnaximanderThe heavenly bodies are rings of fire, separated from the…
• AnaximanderThe boundless is immortal and imperishable, and it governs…
• AnaximanderLiving things first arose in the moist, and humans came…
• AnaximanderHe drew the first map of the inhabited world, and the first…
• AnaximanderThe opposites, hot and cold, wet and dry, separated out…
• AnaximanderThe sun is a circle many times larger than the earth, and…
• AnaximanderWhence things have their coming-to-be, thence also their…
• AnaximanderWinds arise when the finest vapour is set in motion, and…
• Anselm of CanterburyI do not seek to understand so that I may believe, but I…
• Anselm of CanterburyLord, I seek your face; your face I seek, Lord, do not hide…
• Anselm of CanterburyI am not able to understand your mystery by reasoning…
• Anselm of CanterburyTeach me to seek you, and reveal yourself to me as I seek,…
• Anselm of CanterburyGod is that than which nothing greater can be thought.
• Anselm of CanterburyYou have not yet considered how great is the weight of sin.
• Anton ChekhovThe whole of life is but a moving to and fro nothingness.
• Anton ChekhovIf you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
• Anton ChekhovAn honest writer is bound to present his characters as he…
• Anton ChekhovIf you feel that you have no gift for writing and no…
• Anton ChekhovIn life it is not important the station we occupy, but the…
• AristotleAny one can get angry — that is easy; but to do this to the…
• AristotleBy being habituated to despise things that are terrible and…
• AristotleEducating the mind without educating the heart is no…
• AristotleGoodness is both rare and laudable and noble.
• AristotleHappiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole…
• AristotleHe who is unable to live in society, or who has no need…
• AristotleIt is by the excellence of the eye that we see well.
• AristotleIt is no easy task to be good.
• AristotleIt is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain…
• AristotleIt makes no small difference whether we form habits of one…
• AristotleKnowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
• AristotleLove is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
• AristotleMan is by nature a political animal.
• AristotleMen are good in but one way, but bad in many.
• AristotleMen become builders by building and lyre-players by playing…
• AristotleNature does nothing uselessly.
• AristotleNone of the moral virtues arises in us by nature.
• AristotlePleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
• AristotlePoetry is finer and more philosophical than history.
• AristotleStates of character arise out of like activities.
• AristotleThe energy of the mind is the essence of life.
• AristotleThe friend is a second self.
• AristotleThe state is a creation of nature, and man is by nature a…
• AristotleThe whole is more than the sum of its parts.
• AristotleTragedy is an imitation of an action that is serious,…
• AristotleVirtue is a kind of mean, since it aims at what is…
• AristotleWe are adapted by nature to receive the virtues, and are…
• AristotleWe are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an…
• AristotleWe become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing…
• AristotleWithout friends no one would choose to live, though he had…
• Arthur SchopenhauerIntellect is invisible to the man who has none.
• Arthur SchopenhauerMan can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills.
• Arthur SchopenhauerMan can be happy alone but never gay; the gayest moments of…
• Arthur SchopenhauerMan can endure almost any hardship and pain; it is only the…
• Arthur SchopenhauerThe world as we know it is the product of our way of…
• Augustine of HippoAn unjust law is no law at all.
• Augustine of HippoFaith is to believe what we do not see, and the reward of…
• Augustine of HippoGive me chastity and continence, but not yet.
• Augustine of HippoGrant what You command, and command what You will.
• Augustine of HippoHe who created us without our help will not save us without…
• Augustine of HippoHope has two beautiful daughters: anger and courage.
• Augustine of HippoIn essentials unity, in doubtful things liberty, in all…
• Augustine of HippoIt is solved by walking.
• Augustine of HippoLate have I loved thee, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new.
• Augustine of HippoLove, and do what you will.
• Augustine of HippoMan is a great deep... the hairs of his head are more…
• Augustine of HippoMiracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to…
• Augustine of HippoOur heart is restless until it rests in you.
• Augustine of HippoPatience is the companion of wisdom.
• Augustine of HippoRight is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong…
• Augustine of HippoRome has spoken, the case is closed.
• Augustine of HippoSince we cannot attain unto great virtue, let us by…
• Augustine of HippoThe good, if it is not perfect, is not itself.
• Augustine of HippoThe world is a book, and those who do not travel read only…
• Augustine of HippoThere is no death so bad as the death of the soul.
• Augustine of HippoThou hast made us for Thyself, O Lord, and our heart is…
• Augustine of HippoWhat then is time? If no one asks me, I know; if I wish to…
• Augustine of HippoYou are a soul, you are made from spiritual substance, and…
• AverroesDemonstration leads to only one conclusion; where…
• AverroesIgnorance leads to fear, fear leads to hatred, and hatred…
• AverroesIt is our duty to examine the meaning of the ancients'…
• AverroesThe generality of scripture is intended for the multitude,…
• AverroesTruth cannot contradict truth.
• AvicennaAnything that comes into existence must have a cause for…
• AvicennaI existed, and my existence was not from myself.
• AvicennaMedicine is the science by which we learn the various…
• AvicennaThe necessary existent is that whose non-existence is…
• AvicennaThe soul is aware of its own existence without reference to…
• AvicennaTruth is sought for its own sake.
• Baruch SpinozaAll things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
• Baruch SpinozaBlessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself.
• Baruch SpinozaDesire is the very essence of man.
• Baruch SpinozaFear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
• Baruch SpinozaI have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or…
• Baruch SpinozaMan is a social animal.
• Baruch SpinozaNothing exists from whose nature some effect does not…
• Baruch SpinozaPeace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of…
• Baruch SpinozaThe endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of…
• Baruch SpinozaThe greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the…
• Baruch SpinozaThe more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions,…
• Baruch SpinozaThose who are believed to be most abject and humble are…
• Benjamin FranklinA penny saved is a penny earned.
• Benjamin FranklinAn investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
• Benjamin FranklinBy failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
• Benjamin FranklinDiligence is the mother of good luck.
• Benjamin FranklinEarly to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy,…
• Benjamin FranklinEither write something worth reading or do something worth…
• Benjamin FranklinEnergy and persistence conquer all things.
• Benjamin FranklinThey that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little…
• Benjamin FranklinGuests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
• Benjamin FranklinIn this world nothing can be said to be certain, except…
• Benjamin FranklinTell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve…
• Benjamin FranklinThere never was a good war or a bad peace.
• Benjamin FranklinWell done is better than well said.
• Benjamin FranklinWhen you're finished changing, you're finished.
• Bertrand RussellWhat is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to…
• Bertrand RussellThe good life is one inspired by love and guided by…
• Bertrand RussellDo not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion…
• Bertrand RussellThe happiness of a man is best promoted by the diminution…
• Bertrand RussellI believe that love and knowledge are both infinite. We…
• Bertrand RussellPhilosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any…
• Blaise PascalAll of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit…
• Blaise PascalBetween us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is…
• Blaise PascalI have made this letter longer than usual because I lack…
• Blaise PascalImagination decides everything.
• Blaise PascalJustice without force is powerless; force without justice…
• Blaise PascalMan is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he…
• Blaise PascalMan's greatness lies in his power of thought.
• Blaise PascalSmall minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great…
• Blaise PascalThe eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
• Blaise PascalThe heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
• Blaise PascalThe last thing one knows in constructing a work is what to…
• Blaise PascalWe know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the…
• BoethiusAll fortune is surely good.
• BoethiusAs soon as you leave off desire you leave off fear.
• BoethiusChange is the very stuff of life.
• BoethiusEvery fortune is good fortune to the man who bears it with…
• BoethiusFortune is more powerful when she shows a smiling face,…
• BoethiusGod looks down from on high, foreknowing all, and the…
• BoethiusIf Fortune should ever begin to stay steadfast, she would…
• BoethiusIn every ill turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of…
• BoethiusNo man can ever really be secure until he has been forsaken…
• BoethiusNothing is miserable unless you think it so; and, on the…
• BoethiusProvidence is the very Divine Reason itself.
• BoethiusThe condition of human nature is just this: man towers…
• BoethiusThe mind of man cannot lay aside its nature any more than…
• BoethiusThere is a certain power in a wheel, which, as it turns,…
• Carl JungThere is no coming to consciousness without pain. People…
• Carl JungHow can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must…
• Carl JungIndividuation is the psychological process of integrating…
• Carl JungProjections change the world into the replica of one's own…
• Carl JungThe shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole…
• Carl JungUntil you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct…
• Carl SaganExtraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
• Carl SaganThe cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff.
• Carl SaganScience is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of…
• Charles DarwinThere is grandeur in this view of life, with its several…
• Charles DarwinIgnorance more frequently begets confidence than does…
• Charles DarwinIt is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor…
• Charles DickensIt was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was…
• Charles DickensIt is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever…
• Charles DickensIt was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were…
• CiceroA friend is, as it were, a second self.
• CiceroA nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious, but…
• CiceroA room without books is like a body without a soul.
• CiceroAs I approve of a youth that has something of the old man…
• CiceroFriendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens…
• CiceroGratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the…
• CiceroHistory is the witness of the times, the light of truth,…
• CiceroIn everything the middle course is best: all things in…
• CiceroIt is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that…
• CiceroLaws are silent in time of war.
• CiceroNature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
• CiceroNot to know what happened before one was born — that is to…
• CiceroNothing is so intolerable as fortune when she is without…
• CiceroOld age, especially an honored old age, has so great…
• CiceroSilence is one of the great arts of conversation.
• CiceroThe good of the people is the greatest law.
• CiceroThe life given us by nature is short, but the memory of a…
• CiceroThe pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and…
• CiceroThe Republic (res publica) is the affair of the people.
• CiceroThe safety of the people shall be the highest law.
• CiceroThe sinews of war are unlimited money.
• CiceroThere is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
• CiceroTo be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to…
• CiceroTo live is to think.
• CiceroWhile there's life, there's hope.
• ConfuciusAt fifteen, I set my heart on learning; at thirty, I…
• ConfuciusIt is shameful to call a sword what is not a sword, to call…
• ConfuciusThe strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the…
• ConfuciusLet the ruler be a ruler, the minister a minister, the…
• ConfuciusPromote the worthy and place them on top; demote the…
• ConfuciusWhen the ruler is benevolent, all are benevolent; when the…
• ConfuciusThe superior man seeks to harmonize, not to conform. The…
• ConfuciusThe superior man makes demands on himself; the inferior man…
• ConfuciusFilial piety and brotherly submission — are they not the…
• ConfuciusWhen one's father is alive, look at the bent of his will;…
• ConfuciusThe superior man is anxious lest he should not get the…
• ConfuciusIf a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will…
• ConfuciusIf you set an example by being correct, who would dare to…
• ConfuciusTo put the world in order, we must first put the nation in…
• ConfuciusThe superior man harmonizes but does not merely conform;…
• ConfuciusThe strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the…
• ConfuciusThe superior man seeks within himself; the inferior man…
• ConfuciusThe superior man is to the people what the wind is to the…
• ConfuciusWhen you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when…
• ConfuciusWhen I walk along with two others, they may serve me each…
• ConfuciusWhen the wise are at fault, it is with the fault of…
• ConfuciusThe strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the…
• ConfuciusRespect the spirits and gods, but keep them at a distance.
• ConfuciusBy nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to…
• ConfuciusHe who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small…
• ConfuciusMusic produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot…
• ConfuciusThe man of principle is slow to speak but quick to act.
• ConfuciusLearning without thought is futile; thought without…
• ConfuciusThe superior man understands what is right; the inferior…
• ConfuciusDo not do to others what you would not like them to do to…
• ConfuciusWhen you make a mistake, do not be afraid to correct it.
• ConfuciusThe rules of propriety are established to make the people…
• ConfuciusIf a man be without the virtues proper to humanity, what…
• ConfuciusWhen you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when…
• ConfuciusThe firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are…
• ConfuciusI am not one who was born with knowledge. I love the…
• ConfuciusTo study without thinking is futile; to think without…
• ConfuciusThere are three things which the superior man fears: he…
• ConfuciusA man who has committed a mistake and does not correct it…
• ConfuciusThe superior man makes certain that his words are never at…
• ConfuciusThe superior man thinks always of virtue, the common man…
• ConfuciusThe superior man extends his concern to inferior creatures…
• ConfuciusThe superior man is slow in his words and earnest in his…
• Daniel KahnemanThe anchoring effect: the first number you see, even if you…
• Daniel KahnemanThe availability heuristic: instances in which a certain…
• Daniel KahnemanWe have an illusion of understanding. We think we…
• Daniel KahnemanLoss aversion: losses loom larger than gains. The pain of…
• Daniel KahnemanThe psychological impact of an outcome depends on the…
• Daniel KahnemanSystem 1 operates automatically and quickly, with little…
• Dante AlighieriAbandon all hope, ye who enter here.
• Dante AlighieriLove is the force that moves the sun and the other stars.
• Dante AlighieriIn the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself…
• Dante AlighieriUnderstanding cannot be conquered by arms.
• Dante AlighieriVirtue is not an accident, but a habit.
• David HumeA wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
• David HumeBe a philosopher, but amid all your philosophy be still a…
• David HumeBeauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
• David HumeCustom is the great guide of human life.
• David HumeGenerally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous;…
• David HumeIt is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
• David HumeNo testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless…
• David HumeNothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the…
• David HumeReason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions.
• David HumeThe identity we ascribe to the mind of man is only a…
• David HumeThe rules of morality are not the conclusions of our reason.
• David HumeTruth springs from argument amongst friends.
• DemocritusCheerfulness arises through moderation of enjoyment and a…
• DemocritusBy convention sweet, by convention bitter, by convention…
• DemocritusTruth lies in the depths.
• Diogenes of SinopeBlushing is the color of virtue.
• Diogenes of SinopeDogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the…
• Diogenes of SinopeHe has the most who is most content with the least.
• Diogenes of SinopeI am a citizen of the world.
• Diogenes of SinopeI am looking for an honest man.
• Diogenes of SinopeI threw away my cup when I saw a child drinking from his…
• Diogenes of SinopeIt is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of…
• Diogenes of SinopeMan is the most intelligent of the animals — and the most…
• Diogenes of SinopeOf what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's…
• Diogenes of SinopeStanding in the marketplace, he shouted, 'Come, men!' and…
• Diogenes of SinopeThe foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
• Diogenes of SinopeThe mob is the mother of tyrants.
• Diogenes of SinopeThe sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by…
• Diogenes of SinopeWealth is the parent of luxury and effeminacy, poverty of…
• Diogenes of SinopeWhen asked what wine he liked to drink, he replied, 'That…
• Edmund BurkeA state without the means of some change is without the…
• Edmund BurkeAll government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment...…
• Edmund BurkeBad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
• Edmund BurkeCustom reconciles us to everything.
• Edmund BurkeIt is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what…
• Edmund BurkeLiberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
• Edmund BurkeNo passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers…
• Edmund BurkeSociety is indeed a contract... it is a partnership between…
• Edmund BurkeSuperstition is the religion of feeble minds.
• Edmund BurkeThe only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for…
• Edmund BurkeThe people never give up their liberties but under some…
• Edmund BurkeThose who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
• Emily DickinsonHope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul…
• Emily DickinsonPain—has an Element of Blank—It cannot recollect When it…
• Emily DickinsonI dwell in Possibility—It is a fairer House than Prose—
• EmpedoclesAlas, wretched race of mortals, born of strife and sorrow!
• EmpedoclesBlood around the heart is what men think with.
• EmpedoclesFor I have been a boy and a girl, a bush and a bird, and a…
• EmpedoclesI am an exile from the gods and a wanderer, for I trusted…
• EmpedoclesVision occurs when effluences from the body meet the fire…
• EmpedoclesFools! Short-sighted! Their thought is not deep enough to…
• EmpedoclesHear first the four roots of all things: bright Zeus,…
• EmpedoclesTheir senses are dull, and they are the prey of their own…
• EmpedoclesLove and Strife: the one brings things together, the other…
• EmpedoclesIn Love all things come together into one; in Strife they…
• EmpedoclesThe moon shines with light borrowed from the sun.
• EmpedoclesThere is no coming-to-be of any mortal thing, nor any end…
• EmpedoclesFrom what is not, nothing can come to be, and what is…
• EmpedoclesAbstain from the flesh of living beings, for you are one in…
• EmpedoclesThe four roots are always the same, though they mix in…
• EmpedoclesThe sun is a fiery body, and its light is the brightness of…
• EpictetusWhen you are angry, know that you have merely been…
• EpictetusAny person capable of angering you becomes your master.
• EpictetusIt is not things themselves that disturb men, but their…
• EpictetusWhen you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself…
• EpictetusCircumstances do not make the man, they only reveal him to…
• EpictetusCircumstances do not make the man, they only reveal him to…
• EpictetusContentment comes not from having much, but from being…
• EpictetusThe things in our control are by nature free, unrestrained,…
• EpictetusIt is not death, or pain, that is to be dreaded, but the…
• EpictetusDemand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish…
• EpictetusIf you desire to be free, desire nothing that depends on…
• EpictetusDifficulties are things that show what men are.
• EpictetusThere is only one thing for which God has sent me into the…
• EpictetusDo not seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish…
• EpictetusThe things not in our control are weak, slavish,…
• EpictetusFirst say to yourself what you would be; and then do what…
• EpictetusFreedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by…
• EpictetusFreedom is not achieved by satisfying men's desires, but by…
• EpictetusHe is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which…
• EpictetusHe who hangs on to riches is like a man who has swallowed a…
• EpictetusIf you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish…
• EpictetusIn our power are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and,…
• EpictetusIt is difficult to combine and unite these two things — the…
• EpictetusIt is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for…
• EpictetusIt's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that…
• EpictetusIf you wish to improve, be content to be thought foolish…
• EpictetusMan is not worried by real problems so much as by his…
• EpictetusMen are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by…
• EpictetusNature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may…
• EpictetusNo man is free who is not master of himself.
• EpictetusNo man is free who is not master of himself.
• EpictetusOf all existing things some are in our power, and others…
• EpictetusOnly the educated are free.
• EpictetusMen are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and…
• EpictetusNever call yourself a philosopher, nor talk a great deal…
• EpictetusThe first and necessary topic in philosophy is the…
• EpictetusSeek not that the things which happen should happen as you…
• EpictetusSickness is an impediment to the body, but not to the will.
• EpictetusSome things are in our control and others not.
• EpictetusThe beginning of philosophy is the knowledge of our own…
• EpictetusWhat is yours is only your use of impressions.
• EpictetusWith every accident, ask yourself what abilities you have…
• EpictetusThe chief task of a philosopher is to test and distinguish…
• EpictetusWealth consists not in having great possessions, but in…
• EpictetusDon't demand that things happen as you wish, but wish that…
• EpictetusYou may fetter my leg, but my will not even Zeus himself…
• EpicurusAgainst other things it is possible to obtain security, but…
• EpicurusDeath is nothing to us.
• EpicurusDo not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not;…
• EpicurusEmpty is the argument of the philosopher which does not…
• EpicurusHe who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with…
• EpicurusIt is impossible to live a pleasant life without living…
• EpicurusIt is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the…
• EpicurusIt is not the man who has few possessions who is poor, but…
• EpicurusIt is possible to provide security against other ills, but…
• EpicurusLet no one delay the study of philosophy while young, nor…
• EpicurusLive unnoticed.
• EpicurusNot what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our…
• EpicurusNothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
• EpicurusOf all the things which wisdom acquires to produce the…
• EpicurusPleasure is the beginning and end of the blessed life.
• EpicurusSo long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death…
• EpicurusThe greatest fruit of self-sufficiency is freedom.
• EpicurusThe man who follows nature and not vain opinions is…
• EpicurusThe stable condition of well-being in the body and…
• EpicurusThe wealth demanded by nature is limited and easy to…
• EpicurusVain is the word of a philosopher which does not heal any…
• EpicurusWe must not pretend to study philosophy, but study it in…
• EpicurusYou may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the…
• Erich FrommThe average man of today is almost totally narcotized by…
• Erich FrommMan is not born free. He is born with the capacity for…
• Erich FrommIdolatry is not restricted to worshipping statues of wood…
• Erich FrommMature love is union under the condition of preserving…
• Erich FrommNecrophilia is the passionate attraction to all that is…
• Erich FrommSpontaneity is not an impulse, not a reflex; it is the…
• Francis BaconA prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
• Francis BaconA wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
• Francis BaconHe that hath wife and children hath given hostages to…
• Francis BaconHope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.
• Francis BaconIn taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in…
• Francis BaconIt is impossible to love and be wise.
• Francis BaconKnowledge is power.
• Francis BaconMoney is a great servant but a bad master.
• Francis BaconNature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
• Francis BaconReading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and…
• Francis BaconRevenge is a kind of wild justice.
• Francis BaconSilence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
• Francis BaconSome books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and…
• Francis BaconSuspicions amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds,…
• Francis BaconThe job of the wise man is not to speak all he thinks, but…
• Francis BaconThe root of all superstition is that men observe when a…
• Francis BaconThere is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness…
• Francis BaconTruth is a naked and open daylight.
• Friedrich NietzscheBeware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not…
• Friedrich NietzscheMy formula for greatness is amor fati: that one wants…
• Friedrich NietzscheYou must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing…
• Friedrich NietzscheGod is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.
• Friedrich NietzscheWhat is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the…
• Fyodor DostoevskyBeauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil…
• Fyodor DostoevskyIf God does not exist, everything is permitted.
• Fyodor DostoevskyLove in practice is a hard and dreadful thing compared with…
• Fyodor DostoevskyThe degree of civilization in a society is revealed by…
• Fyodor DostoevskySuffering then is the origin of consciousness.
• Galileo GalileiAnd yet it moves.
• Galileo GalileiThe book of nature is written in the language of…
• Galileo GalileiMeasure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not…
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelContradiction is the root of all movement and of all life.
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelIn freedom there is no chaos, but rather the deepest…
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelWorld history is the progress of the consciousness of…
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelNothing great in the world has been accomplished without…
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelThe real is rational, and the rational is real.
• George Bernard ShawImagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what…
• George Bernard ShawProgress is impossible without change, and those who cannot…
• George Bernard ShawAll great truths begin as blasphemies.
• George Bernard ShawThe reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the…
• George EliotIf we are to deal humanely with animals we must see past…
• George EliotIf we had a keen vision and feeling of all that is ordinary…
• George EliotThe finite imagination can always construct forms of…
• George EliotWhat greater thing is there for two human souls to feel…
• George EliotA woman's lot is made for her by the society she is born…
• George WashingtonAssociate with men of good quality if you esteem your own…
• George WashingtonDiscipline is the soul of an army.
• George WashingtonFew men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
• George WashingtonGovernment is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force.
• George WashingtonI cannot tell a lie.
• George WashingtonIt is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
• George WashingtonLabor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of…
• George WashingtonLiberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid…
• George WashingtonNothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate…
• George WashingtonObserve good faith and justice towards all nations.…
• George WashingtonTrue friendship is a plant of slow growth.
• George Washington'Tis substantially true that virtue or morality is a…
• Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizEvery substance is like a complete world and like a mirror…
• Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizIt is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves…
• Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizMonads have no windows through which anything can enter or…
• Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizMusic is the pleasure the human mind experiences from…
• Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizNothing takes place without sufficient reason.
• Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizThe present is big with the future.
• Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizThere are two kinds of truths: truths of reasoning and…
• Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizThere is nothing without a reason.
• Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizTo love is to find pleasure in the happiness of another.
• Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizWe live in the best of all possible worlds.
• Hannah ArendtAction and speech are the two fundamental human activities.…
• Hannah ArendtThe most terrifying fact about the Nazi extermination camps…
• Hannah ArendtIn dark times, it falls to the individual to preserve…
• Hannah ArendtNatality—the birth of new humans—is the human condition…
• Hannah ArendtThe public realm is constituted by human plurality—the fact…
• Hannah ArendtPoverty and powerlessness are the root conditions that make…
• Hannah ArendtPolitics depends on the human capacity to make and keep…
• Hannah ArendtThe spirit of revolution is the spirit of beginning…
• Hannah ArendtThinking is the activity through which one examines one's…
• Hannah ArendtTotalitarianism is a new form of government, not merely an…
• Henry David ThoreauIf a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this…
• Henry David ThoreauI went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,…
• Henry David ThoreauIf a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it…
• Henry David ThoreauSimplify, simplify, simplify.
• Henry David ThoreauUnder a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true…
• HeraclitusA man's character is his guardian spirit.
• HeraclitusBig results require big ambitions.
• HeraclitusCharacter is fate.
• HeraclitusEverything flows.
• HeraclitusEyes are more exact witnesses than ears.
• HeraclitusIt is hard to fight with desire; whatever it wants it buys…
• HeraclitusIt is not possible to step twice in the same river, nor to…
• HeraclitusMuch learning does not teach understanding.
• HeraclitusNature loves to hide.
• HeraclitusThe hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
• HeraclitusThe sun is new every day.
• HeraclitusThe unlike is joined together, and from differences results…
• HeraclitusThe way up and the way down are one and the same.
• HeraclitusWar is the father of all and king of all.
• HeraclitusYou cannot step twice into the same river.
• Ibn KhaldunInjustice leads to the ruin of civilization.
• Ibn KhaldunI have discovered a science which is new, and which I have…
• Immanuel KantAct only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the…
• Immanuel KantAll our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to…
• Immanuel KantEnlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred…
• Immanuel KantGenius is the talent for producing something for which no…
• Immanuel KantHe who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his…
• Immanuel KantIt is not necessary that while I live I live happily, but…
• Immanuel KantMan must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
• Immanuel KantOut of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was…
• Immanuel KantSapere aude! Have courage to use your own understanding!
• Immanuel KantThoughts without content are empty, intuitions without…
• Immanuel KantTreat people as ends in themselves, never merely as means.
• Immanuel KantTwo things fill the mind with ever new and increasing…
• Isaac NewtonI do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself…
• Isaac NewtonHypotheses non fingo.
• Isaac NewtonIf I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders…
• Isaiah BerlinThe ends of men are many, and not all of them are in…
• Isaiah BerlinFreedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.
• Jafar al-SadiqI taught Jabir the secrets of the art of transmutation,…
• Jafar al-SadiqThe science of letters that I possess contains the…
• Jafar al-SadiqKnowledge is the companion of the believer, and the seeking…
• Jafar al-SadiqShow mercy to the creatures of God, and God will show mercy…
• Jafar al-SadiqPrayer is the pillar of religion; whoever abandons it has…
• Jafar al-SadiqRepentance is regret of the heart, the tongue's confession,…
• Jafar al-SadiqWhoever seeks knowledge from its proper source will not be…
• James Clerk MaxwellThe true logic for this world is the calculus of…
• Jean-Jacques RousseauI have seen the vices of mankind without hating men.
• Jean-Jacques RousseauLiberty is not a fruit of every climate.
• Jean-Jacques RousseauMan is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
• Jean-Jacques RousseauMan was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.
• Jean-Jacques RousseauPatience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
• Jean-Jacques RousseauPeople who know little are generally great talkers, while…
• Jean-Jacques RousseauPlants are shaped by cultivation, and men by education.
• Jean-Jacques RousseauThe general will is always right.
• Jean-Jacques RousseauThe world of reality has its limits; the world of…
• Jean-Jacques RousseauTo renounce liberty is to renounce being a man.
• Jean-Jacques RousseauWe are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid;…
• Jean-Jacques RousseauWhoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is…
• Jean-Paul SartreHuman existence is fundamentally ambiguous. We are neither…
• Jean-Paul SartreMan is anguished because he discovers that he is condemned…
• Jean-Paul SartreBad faith is a lie we tell ourselves about our freedom and…
• Jean-Paul SartreConsciousness is a being such that in its being, its being…
• Jean-Paul SartreThe writer is a man who commits himself completely to his…
• Jean-Paul SartreExistence precedes essence. Consciousness throws itself…
• Jean-Paul SartreSartre distinguishes between facticity (the given facts of…
• Jean-Paul SartreFreedom is the very condition of existence. We are our…
• Jean-Paul SartreMan is free, but he has no excuse for being so. He must…
• Jeremy BenthamEach person is to count for one and no more than one.
• Jeremy BenthamIt is the duty of government to promote the happiness of…
• Jeremy BenthamIt is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is…
• Jeremy BenthamNature has placed mankind under two sovereign masters,…
• Jeremy BenthamNatural rights is simple nonsense: natural and…
• Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness…
• Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThere is nothing to which we cling more readily than to the…
• Johann Wolfgang von GoetheKnowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not…
• Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLive your life as though everything you do in it is on…
• Johann Wolfgang von GoetheSeize the day with both hands.
• Johannes KeplerI am thinking God's thoughts after him.
• Johannes KeplerWhere there is matter, there is geometry.
• Johannes KeplerNature uses as little as possible of anything.
• John DeweyDemocracy is more than a form of government; it is…
• John DeweyTo say that education is a social function, securing…
• John DeweyTo maintain the state of doubt and to carry on systematic…
• John DeweyReflection involves not simply a sequence of ideas, but a…
• John DeweyWe do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting…
• John DeweyActive, persistent, and careful consideration of any belief…
• John DeweyReflective thinking is always more or less troublesome…
• John LockeAs the state of health is what everyone desires, so it is a…
• John LockeEducation begins the gentleman, but reading, good company,…
• John LockeGovernment has no other end but the preservation of…
• John LockeLet us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper,…
• John LockeNew opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed,…
• John LockeNo man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
• John LockeParents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they…
• John LockeReading furnishes the mind only with materials of…
• John LockeThe end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to…
• John LockeThe mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone.
• John LockeThe state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which…
• John LockeWhere there is no law, there is no freedom.
• John Stuart MillIt is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool…
• John Stuart MillThe only purpose for which power can be rightfully…
• John Stuart MillIndividuality is the same thing which it is passion and…
• John Stuart MillIf all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would…
• John Stuart MillThe greatest happiness principle holds that actions are…
• KabirThe Beloved is not found in temples or mosques; look within.
• Karl MarxThe philosophers have only interpreted the world in various…
• Karl MarxHegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts…
• Karl MarxIt is not the consciousness of men that determines their…
• Karl MarxReligion is the opium of the people.
• Karl MarxWorkers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but…
• Karl PopperScience does not rest on a solid bedrock. Science is not…
• Karl PopperA theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is…
• Karl PopperGrowth of knowledge consists in the continuous modification…
• Karl PopperThe idea of freedom and the idea of progress are connected…
• Karl PopperTotalitarianism is the attempt to impose a unified,…
• Karl PopperTruth is like an asymptotic ideal which we approach but can…
• Khalil GibranBeauty is not a need but an ecstasy.
• Khalil GibranYour children are not your children. They are the sons and…
• Khalil GibranYou may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they…
• Khalil GibranLife and death are one, even as the river and the sea are…
• Khalil GibranThink not you can direct the course of love, for love, if…
• Khalil GibranYour friend is your needs answered.
• Khalil GibranWhen you part from your friend, you grieve not.
• Khalil GibranYou give but little when you give of your possessions. It…
• Khalil GibranYou are good when you are one with yourself.
• Khalil GibranYour house shall be your larger body.
• Khalil GibranYour joy is your sorrow unmasked.
• Khalil GibranYou are the bows from which your children as living arrows…
• Khalil GibranLove has no other desire but to fulfil itself.
• Khalil GibranLove gives naught but itself and takes naught but from…
• Khalil GibranLove possesses not nor would it be possessed; for love is…
• Khalil GibranFor what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to…
• Khalil GibranPain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your…
• Khalil GibranReason and passion are the rudder and the sails of your…
• Khalil GibranFor a hundred and one reasons one cannot be what one is,…
• Khalil GibranYou would know the secret of death. But how shall you find…
• Khalil GibranThe deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy…
• Khalil GibranYour soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your…
• Khalil GibranLet there be spaces in your togetherness.
• Khalil GibranYou may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them…
• Khalil GibranYou talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.
• Khalil GibranWork is love made visible.
• LaoziThose who know do not speak; those who speak do not know.
• LaoziThe Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.
• LaoziA journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
• Leo TolstoyAll happy families are alike; each unhappy family is…
• Leo TolstoyArt is the transmission from the heart of the artist of his…
• Leo TolstoyForgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
• Leo TolstoyMan cannot possess anything as long as he is possessed by…
• Leo TolstoyTruth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it…
• Ludwig WittgensteinThink of the tools in a toolbox: there is a hammer, pliers,…
• Ludwig WittgensteinWhereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.…
• Ludwig WittgensteinGrammar tells us what kind of object anything is. (Theology…
• Ludwig WittgensteinA philosophical problem has the form: 'I don't know my way…
• Ludwig WittgensteinSuppose I say I will call the sensation which I now have…
• Ludwig WittgensteinWhereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. But…
• Mahatma GandhiAhimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, not…
• Mahatma GandhiAn eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
• Mahatma GandhiThe greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be…
• Mahatma GandhiIf we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world…
• Mahatma GandhiLive as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were…
• Mahatma GandhiNonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also…
• Mahatma GandhiI have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and…
• Mahatma GandhiAn ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
• Mahatma GandhiTruth never damages a cause that is just.
• Mahatma GandhiThe pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's…
• Mahatma GandhiIt is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is…
• Mahatma GandhiI object to violence because when it appears to do good,…
• Mahatma GandhiTo call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's…
• MaimonidesA single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions.
• MaimonidesEveryone is obligated to see himself as if he stood in the…
• MaimonidesGive a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man…
• MaimonidesMan's power of apprehension is too limited to attain the…
• MaimonidesRepentance and the Day of Atonement procure forgiveness for…
• MaimonidesSilence is a fence for wisdom.
• MaimonidesTeach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt…
• MaimonidesThe highest form of charity is to help a man help himself.
• MaimonidesThe knowledge of God cannot be attained except by the…
• MaimonidesThe risk of a soul is more grievous than the risk of a body.
• MaimonidesThe risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of…
• Marcus AureliusAccept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your…
• Marcus AureliusAccept the things to which fate binds you, and love the…
• Marcus AureliusAdapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been…
• Marcus AureliusAmbition means tying your well-being to what other people…
• Marcus AureliusNo longer talk about what kind of man a good man ought to…
• Marcus AureliusEverything is change.
• Marcus AureliusConfine thyself to the present.
• Marcus AureliusDig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is…
• Marcus AureliusDo every act of your life as if it were your last.
• Marcus AureliusDo every act of your life as though it were the last.
• Marcus AureliusEverything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we…
• Marcus AureliusWhen you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people…
• Marcus AureliusDo not act as if you had ten thousand years to live. Death…
• Marcus AureliusIt is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear…
• Marcus AureliusThe happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your…
• Marcus AureliusHe who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with…
• Marcus AureliusHow much more grievous are the consequences of anger than…
• Marcus AureliusThe things that are not good for the hive cannot be good…
• Marcus AureliusWe are made for cooperation, like feet, like hands, like…
• Marcus AureliusIf thou art pained by any external thing, it is not this…
• Marcus AureliusPeople who are animated by the same passions as yourself…
• Marcus AureliusIt is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear…
• Marcus AureliusThe soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
• Marcus AureliusThe best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
• Marcus AureliusRemember that man lives in the present, in this fleeting…
• Marcus AureliusLoss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's…
• Marcus AureliusYou have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize…
• Marcus AureliusNever let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you…
• Marcus AureliusNowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat…
• Marcus AureliusThe impediment to action advances action. What stands in…
• Marcus AureliusOur life is what our thoughts make it.
• Marcus AureliusA man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
• Marcus AureliusReject your sense of injury and the injury itself…
• Marcus AureliusIf it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not…
• Marcus AureliusDo every act of your life as though it were the very last…
• Marcus AureliusThe happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your…
• Marcus AureliusThe best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the…
• Marcus AureliusThe happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your…
• Marcus AureliusThe impediment to action advances action. What stands in…
• Marcus AureliusThe universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make…
• Marcus AureliusThe universe is transformation; life is opinion.
• Marcus AureliusTime is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is…
• Marcus AureliusThe universe is change: life is opinion.
• Marcus AureliusVery little is needed to make a happy life; it is all…
• Marcus AureliusWaste no more time arguing about what a good man should be.…
• Marcus AureliusYou could leave life right now. Have that determine what…
• Marcus AureliusWhen you arise in the morning, think of what a precious…
• Marcus AureliusYou have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize…
• Marie CurieIn science we must be interested in things, not in persons.
• Marie CurieNothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be…
• Marie CurieI was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor…
• Mark TwainAll you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and…
• Mark TwainThere warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places…
• Mark TwainTruth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction…
• Mark TwainWhen in doubt tell the truth.
• Martin HeideggerThe 'they-self' of Dasein is the 'who,' not this one, not…
• Martin HeideggerDasein is an entity which does not just occur among other…
• Martin HeideggerBeing-towards-death is Dasein's own possibility, which is…
• Martin HeideggerLanguage is the house of being. Language is the clearing…
• Martin HeideggerThe Nothing nothings. It is the Nothing itself that…
• Martin HeideggerPoetically, man dwells on this earth... The poetic power is…
• Martin HeideggerThe most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking…
• Martin HeideggerModern technology is a means to an end... and a human…
• Martin HeideggerDasein is 'thrown' into a world it did not choose. We find…
• Mary WollstonecraftEvery art and profession... has become necessary to support…
• Mary WollstonecraftGenius will educate itself.
• Mary WollstonecraftI do not wish women to have power over men, but over…
• Mary WollstonecraftI love man as my fellow; but his sceptre, real, or usurped,…
• Mary WollstonecraftIt is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
• Mary WollstonecraftMake them free, and they will quickly become wise and…
• Mary WollstonecraftStrengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will…
• Mary WollstonecraftTaught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the…
• Mary WollstonecraftThe mind that has never been engrossed by one object wants…
• Mary WollstonecraftVirtue can only flourish among equals.
• MenciusA great man is one who does not lose his child's heart.
• MenciusHuman nature is good, just as water flows downward.
• MenciusThe people are the most important element in a nation; the…
• Michael FaradayPray be sure you are right, then go ahead.
• Michael FaradayNothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent…
• Michael FaradayWork, finish, publish.
• Michel de MontaigneA man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he…
• Michel de MontaigneEvery man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice.
• Michel de MontaigneHe who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
• Michel de MontaigneI do not portray being: I portray passing.
• Michel de MontaigneI have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself.
• Michel de MontaigneI quote others only the better to express myself.
• Michel de MontaigneMan is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet…
• Michel de MontaigneMy life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of…
• Michel de MontaigneNature never gave us anything so good it might not be…
• Michel de MontaigneNothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.
• Michel de MontaigneObsession is the wellspring of great achievement, rather…
• Michel de MontaigneSaying is one thing, doing is another.
• Michel de MontaigneThe greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to…
• Michel de MontaigneThe most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness.
• Michel de MontaigneThe soul which has no fixed goal loses itself.
• Michel de MontaigneThe value of life lies not in the length of days, but in…
• Michel de MontaigneThere is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his…
• Michel de MontaigneWonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the…
• Michel FoucaultPower is everywhere; not because it embraces everything,…
• Michel FoucaultWhere there is power, there is resistance.
• Miguel de CervantesTake care of the sense and the sounds will take care of…
• Miguel de CervantesWhen life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness…
• Miguel de CervantesFreedom is one of the most precious gifts that heaven has…
• Miguel de CervantesTruth has such a face and such a mien as can only be liked…
• Miguel de CervantesThe truth may be bent, but not broken, and always gets…
• Miguel de UnamunoI will not be silent; I will keep my conscience free, even…
• Miguel de UnamunoI believe in God, and I live by the struggle against doubt;…
• Miguel de UnamunoMan wishes to be eternal, and reason tells him he must die;…
• Miguel de UnamunoSpain is tragic, because the Spaniard lives between the…
• Miguel de UnamunoTo live is to struggle, and to struggle is to be wounded…
• Miguel de UnamunoThe tragic sense of life is the sense of the conflict…
• MuhammadThe angels lower their wings in approval of the seeker of…
• MuhammadThe best of you are those who are best to their families,…
• MuhammadThe best charity is that given when one is in need.
• MuhammadThere are no days more virtuous than these (the first ten…
• MuhammadThe Muslim is the one from whose tongue and hand the people…
• MuhammadPeople are like mines of gold and silver; the best of them…
• MuhammadThe best among you are those who are best (in behaviour) to…
• MuhammadNo one is a proper Muslim until he wishes for his brother…
• MuhammadThe companion and the path they take; if you don't take a…
• MuhammadVerily, Allah has prescribed excellence in all things.
• MuhammadFasting is a shield (from sin).
• MuhammadThe five prayers, and from one Friday prayer to the next…
• MuhammadEven a good word is a charity.
• MuhammadHe who thanks is not like he who does not thank.
• MuhammadAll deeds are judged by intention, and every person will be…
• MuhammadA woman entered the (hell) fire because of a cat that she…
• MuhammadPeople do not gather in the houses of Allah, reciting the…
• MuhammadThe learned are the heirs of the Prophets.
• MuhammadWhen a son of Adam dies, his acts come to an end, but three…
• MuhammadMy Lord, increase me in knowledge.
• MuhammadThe merciful will be shown mercy by the Most Merciful. Be…
• MuhammadModesty is a branch of faith.
• MuhammadEvery child is born in a state of fitrah (natural…
• MuhammadGabriel kept on commending the neighbor to me until I…
• MuhammadThe best prayer after the obligatory prayers is prayer at…
• MuhammadOppression will become a darkness on the Day of Judgment.
• MuhammadO Messenger of Allah! I want to go out and fight (in Jihad)…
• MuhammadWhoever travels a path in search of knowledge, Allah will…
• MuhammadThe greatest reward belongs to the greatest trial.
• MuhammadConvey from me, even if it is one verse.
• MuhammadThe strong man is not he who overcomes people by his…
• MuhammadBeware of suspicion, for suspicion is the worst of tales.
• MuhammadThe one who looks after a widow or a poor person is like a…
• MuhammadTruthfulness leads to righteousness, and righteousness…
• MuhammadEnvy is not justified except in two cases: a man whom Allah…
• MuhammadThe best jihad is a word of justice spoken in front of a…
• Muhammad IqbalThere are worlds beyond the stars.
• Muhammad IqbalAction is the proof of thought; the words of one who does…
• Muhammad IqbalThe ego is a unity, a centre of experience that cannot be…
• Muhammad IqbalYou are a falcon; flight is your task. Do not make your…
• Muhammad IqbalThe principle of movement and change is the essence of…
• Muhammad IqbalIntellect gives us the means to use the world; love gives…
• Muhammad IqbalLet the heart burn with a fire of longing; without that…
• Muhammad IqbalReason in servitude is of no use; free reason is the…
• Muhammad IqbalRise, Khudi, so high that before every decree, God Himself…
• Muhammad IqbalLet your self be exalted, so that before every decree God…
• Muhammad IqbalIn slavery, swords are of no use; the sword of the free is…
• Muhammad IqbalTime is the very stuff of life, and reality is a process of…
• Muhammad IqbalThe youth should have a heart that is brave and a mind that…
• Niccolò MachiavelliA prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his…
• Niccolò MachiavelliEveryone sees what you appear to be, few experience what…
• Niccolò MachiavelliIt is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
• Niccolò MachiavelliIt is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
• Niccolò MachiavelliThe main foundations of every state are good laws and good…
• Niccolò MachiavelliMen judge generally more by the eye than by the hand.
• Niccolò MachiavelliMen rise from one ambition to another: first they seek to…
• Niccolò MachiavelliNever was anything great achieved without danger.
• Niccolò MachiavelliThere is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of…
• Niccolò MachiavelliPolitics have no relation to morals.
• Niccolò MachiavelliThe end justifies the means.
• Niccolò MachiavelliThe wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
• Niccolò MachiavelliWar is just when it is necessary.
• Niccolò MachiavelliWhere the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be…
• Niccolò MachiavelliWhosoever desires constant success must change his conduct…
• NāgārjunaWhatever is dependently co-arisen, that is explained to be…
• NāgārjunaThe victors have said that emptiness is the relinquishing…
• Oscar WildeExperience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
• Oscar WildeWe are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the…
• Oscar WildeThe truth is rarely pure and never simple.
• ParmenidesIt is necessary to say and to think that what is is; for it…
• ParmenidesThis will never be forced: that things which are not are.
• ParmenidesOnly one story of the way still remains: that it is.
• ParmenidesThe mares that carry me as far as my heart desires…
• ParmenidesFor it is the same thing to think and to be.
• ParmenidesCome now, I will tell you, and you must carry my account…
• ParmenidesIt is ungenerated and imperishable, whole, single,…
• PlatoAll learning is but recollection.
• PlatoAstronomy compels the soul to look upward.
• PlatoAt the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
• PlatoBeauty itself, which is always the same and unchanging.
• PlatoThe knowledge of the good is the greatest knowledge.
• PlatoThe body is a prison for the soul.
• PlatoCourage is knowing what not to fear.
• PlatoDemocracy passes into despotism.
• PlatoEducation is the art of directing the soul toward the right…
• PlatoEducation is not what some people declare it to be, namely,…
• PlatoExcess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals,…
• PlatoThe Good is beyond being, and it exceeds it in dignity and…
• PlatoGood people do not need laws to tell them to act…
• PlatoThe first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself.
• PlatoHe, O men of Athens, is wise who understands that his…
• PlatoHe was a wise man who invented the idea of God.
• PlatoIdeas are the source of all things.
• PlatoIgnorance, the root and stem of all evil.
• PlatoIgnorance is the root and stem of every evil.
• PlatoThe soul is immortal.
• PlatoJustice is the virtue that makes a man and his possessions…
• PlatoKnow thyself.
• PlatoKnow thyself.
• PlatoAll learning is but recollection.
• PlatoLove is the pursuit of the whole.
• PlatoPhilosophy is the love of wisdom.
• PlatoThe lover of wisdom is the lover of truth.
• PlatoMusic gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight…
• PlatoNecessity is the mother of invention.
• PlatoNo human thing is of serious importance.
• PlatoOne of the penalties for refusing to participate in…
• PlatoTrue opinion is no less useful than knowledge.
• PlatoJustice is the virtue that makes a man and his possessions…
• PlatoUntil philosophers take control of the state, there will be…
• PlatoThe philosopher is a lover of learning.
• PlatoThe practice of philosophy is a preparation for dying.
• PlatoPhilosophy is the love of wisdom.
• PlatoPoets utter great and wise things which they do not…
• PlatoReality is created by the mind; we can change our reality…
• PlatoThe greatest victory of all is the victory over self.
• PlatoTemperance is the order and harmony of certain pleasures…
• PlatoTemperance is the order and harmony of certain pleasures…
• PlatoThe beginning is the most important part of the work.
• PlatoThe direction in which education starts a man will…
• PlatoThe Good is beyond being, and it exceeds it in dignity and…
• PlatoThe greatest wealth is to live content with little.
• PlatoThe knowledge of the good is the greatest knowledge.
• PlatoThe philosopher is a lover of learning.
• PlatoThe practice of philosophy is a preparation for dying.
• PlatoThe state in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern…
• PlatoThere are two things a person should never be angry at:…
• PlatoTrue opinion is no less useful than knowledge.
• PlatoUntil philosophers take control of the state, there will be…
• PlatoWe can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark;…
• PlatoWise men speak because they have something to say; fools…
• PlotinusActions are said to be in our power when we are free to do…
• PlotinusAll that exists desires the Good.
• PlotinusBeauty is, more than anything else, a Good which draws the…
• PlotinusCut away everything.
• PlotinusEvery soul is a Venus.
• PlotinusNever did eye see the sun unless it had first become…
• PlotinusNothing that has real being can ever perish.
• PlotinusReal beauty exists first in the soul.
• PlotinusThe Intellectual Kingdom is Light... a pure Light... single…
• PlotinusThe One is all things and no thing.
• PlotinusThe Soul takes on ugliness when it plunges wholly into the…
• PlotinusThere is no place where God is not.
• PlotinusThis, no doubt, is what the Sages meant to indicate when...…
• PlotinusTo go towards it is to turn towards it.
• PlotinusWisdom is not talk but a state of soul.
• PlotinusWithdraw into yourself and look.
• PlutarchA little spark of ill-spoken word or deed lights the fire…
• PlutarchAn imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most…
• PlutarchCharacter is simply habit long continued.
• PlutarchCourage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness.
• PlutarchEnvy indeed dwells with the mean of soul, ever seeking to…
• PlutarchIn practical life character is the main thing, not what we…
• PlutarchIt is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but…
• PlutarchIt is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds,…
• PlutarchKnow how to listen, and you will profit even from those who…
• PlutarchMost people, when they are studying, want facts, not…
• PlutarchNothing enduring can be built on injustice, cruelty, and…
• PlutarchPainting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that…
• PlutarchPersistent people begin their success where others end in…
• PlutarchRest is the sweet sauce of labor.
• PlutarchThat which is used, develops. That which is not used,…
• PlutarchThe mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be…
• PlutarchThe true way to render ourselves happy is to root out our…
• PlutarchThe whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy…
• PlutarchThe wisest men follow their own direction and counsel,…
• PlutarchTo find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
• PythagorasAbove all things, reverence yourself.
• PythagorasAs long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.
• PythagorasEducate the children and it won't be necessary to punish…
• PythagorasFriends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid…
• PythagorasIn anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
• PythagorasNo man is free who cannot command himself.
• PythagorasNumber is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of…
• PythagorasRest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of…
• PythagorasSilence is better than unmeaning words.
• PythagorasThere is geometry in the humming of the strings; there is…
• Rabindranath TagoreThe butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time…
• Rabindranath TagoreFaith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is…
• Rabindranath TagoreWhere the mind is without fear and the head is held high.
• Ralph Waldo EmersonA foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,…
• Ralph Waldo EmersonI hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
• Ralph Waldo EmersonThere is properly no history; only biography.
• Ralph Waldo EmersonThe mind of this country teaches that the mind is the only…
• Ralph Waldo EmersonIs it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was…
• Ralph Waldo EmersonWhoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
• Ralph Waldo EmersonThough we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we…
• Ralph Waldo EmersonTrust thyself. Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
• Ralph Waldo EmersonEvery violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in…
• Ralph Waldo EmersonWhat lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny…
• Ram Mohan RoyIdolatry and the distinctions of caste are the chief…
• Ram Mohan RoyThe journey to England was taken in hope of a fair hearing…
• Ram Mohan RoyA knowledge of European science and English literature is…
• Ram Mohan RoyThe Creator is one, and He cannot be known through images…
• Ram Mohan RoyThe moral teaching of Jesus, detached from later doctrines,…
• Ram Mohan RoyReason is the guide that God has given us to distinguish…
• Ram Mohan RoyThe practice of burning widows is not sanctioned by the…
• Ram Mohan RoyCustom is not truth; a practice is to be judged by reason…
• Ram Mohan RoyThe true religion is one that all men can share, based on…
• Ram Mohan RoyThe Upanishads teach the unity of the Supreme Being, and…
• Ram Mohan RoyWomen are entitled to a share of their husband's property…
• René DescartesCommon sense is the best distributed thing in the world.
• René DescartesI have found no better way of dealing with them than always…
• René DescartesConquer yourself rather than the world.
• René DescartesDivide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible…
• René DescartesDoubt is the origin of wisdom.
• René DescartesEach problem that I solved became a rule which served…
• René DescartesExcept our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our…
• René DescartesGood sense is of all things in the world the most equally…
• René DescartesI am, I exist — this is certain.
• René DescartesI think, therefore I am.
• René DescartesIt is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to…
• René DescartesIt is only prudent never to place complete confidence in…
• René DescartesThe reading of all good books is like a conversation with…
• René DescartesThe senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent…
• Richard FeynmanWhat I cannot create, I do not understand.
• Richard FeynmanThe first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and…
• Richard FeynmanI think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum…
• Robert Louis StevensonThere are men and classes of men that stand above the…
• Robert Louis StevensonIf I could rightly be said to fall, I could rise; if I…
• Robert Louis StevensonTo travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and…
• RumiOut beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a…
• RumiThe wound is the place where the Light enters you.
• SenecaA gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man…
• SenecaA great fortune is a great slavery.
• SenecaLet us willingly follow where Fortune leads.
• SenecaLet us willingly follow necessity.
• SenecaFire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
• SenecaNo tree becomes deeply rooted and sturdy unless many a wind…
• SenecaHe who suffers before it is necessary suffers more than is…
• SenecaA man becomes stronger through the things he endures.
• SenecaAdversity teaches a man what he is.
• SenecaNo one knows what he can do until he has tried.
• SenecaNo tree is strong enough to stand firm unless many a wind…
• SenecaProsperity is the lot of the common herd; adversity is the…
• SenecaAll cruelty springs from weakness.
• SenecaWe can associate with Socrates, and with Plato, and with…
• SenecaAnger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us…
• SenecaThe best remedy for anger is delay.
• SenecaLet the first impulse of anger be checked by delay.
• SenecaAnger destroys whatever it touches.
• SenecaAnger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us…
• SenecaAnger is the enemy of reason.
• SenecaThe first and most important step toward getting rid of…
• SenecaAnger is contrary to nature, and reason is contrary to…
• SenecaAnger is an avenger of injury.
• SenecaAnger is a brief madness.
• SenecaThe greatest remedy for anger is delay.
• SenecaAnger is not useful for anything.
• SenecaAnger is, as it were, a brief madness.
• SenecaAnger is a sign of weakness.
• SenecaWe suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
• SenecaAs is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good…
• SenecaAs long as you live, keep learning how to live.
• SenecaWithdraw into yourself as much as possible.
• SenecaBad company corrupts even a good character.
• SenecaBegin at once to live, and count each separate day as a…
• SenecaBegin at once to live, and count each separate day as a…
• SenecaA benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the…
• SenecaThe intention of the giver is what makes the benefit.
• SenecaA brave man struggling with adversity is a spectacle worthy…
• SenecaEveryone agrees that no one can pursue anything…
• SenecaThe busy man is one who has no time for anything.
• SenecaThe most disgraceful kind of loss, however, is that due to…
• SenecaYou should change your mind, not your surroundings.
• SenecaA man's character is shown by his actions.
• SenecaNo one can keep his character from being influenced by the…
• SenecaCharacter is formed by repeated actions.
• SenecaThe good man measures himself by his own standards.
• SenecaAll men have the same origin.
• SenecaNature produced us related to one another.
• SenecaOur character is influenced by the people with whom we…
• SenecaAssociation with the crowd is dangerous.
• SenecaHe who is contented is rich.
• SenecaHe who is contented is rich.
• SenecaHe who is contented with what he has is rich.
• SenecaHe who is satisfied with little has everything.
• SenecaThe strongest man is he who controls himself.
• SenecaI hide nothing from myself; I pass nothing by.
• SenecaIt is not because things are difficult that we do not dare;…
• SenecaWe are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more…
• SenecaThe man who is not afraid of death is master of life.
• SenecaWe are more often frightened than hurt.
• SenecaThe man who is brave is free.
• SenecaCourage is freedom from fear.
• SenecaThe companionship of the crowd is dangerous.
• SenecaI have examined my whole day.
• SenecaMake yourself better every day.
• SenecaCount each separate day as a separate life.
• SenecaDeath is the equalizer of all things.
• SenecaDeath is everywhere.
• SenecaDeath is the only thing that is equal to all men.
• SenecaDeath makes all men equal.
• SenecaDeath is not an evil.
• SenecaDeath is a law of nature.
• SenecaDeath is the law, not a punishment.
• SenecaDeath is not an evil.
• SenecaDeath is nothing to us.
• SenecaHe who learns how to die unlearns slavery.
• SenecaHe who is prepared to die is prepared to live.
• SenecaThe natural needs are small; the desires of men are…
• SenecaSet a limit to your desires.
• SenecaHe who craves more is poor.
• SenecaIf you wish to be rich, do not add to your money but…
• SenecaDifficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
• SenecaThe mind should be given time to digest what it has read.
• SenecaWho understands that he is dying daily?
• SenecaRemember that he whom you call your slave sprang from the…
• SenecaEvery man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
• SenecaEvery new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
• SenecaThe greatest lesson is to learn by example.
• SenecaExample is the best teacher.
• SenecaExpectancy depends upon tomorrow and loses today.
• SenecaHe who has learned how to die has unlearned how to serve.
• SenecaExternal things are not in our power.
• SenecaFate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
• SenecaFate leads the willing and drags the unwilling.
• SenecaThey are both dependent upon uncertainty.
• SenecaThere are more things, Lucilius, likely to frighten us than…
• SenecaFear follows hope, and hope follows fear.
• SenecaThe mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.
• SenecaThere are more things likely to frighten us than there are…
• SenecaFear is evidence of a weak mind.
• SenecaPoverty, reduced to its proper limits, is great wealth.
• SenecaFear is slavery.
• SenecaYou should always be reading a few books.
• SenecaThe man who has few desires is rich.
• SenecaThe greatest good is a mind in harmony with itself.
• SenecaFire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
• SenecaLet us follow nature.
• SenecaThe greatest remedy for anger is delay.
• SenecaThe wise man will never forgive a wrong because he has…
• SenecaThe wise man will be calm and tranquil.
• SenecaThe bravest sight in the world is to see a great man…
• SenecaA brave man is strengthened by adversity.
• SenecaFortune tests the brave.
• SenecaFortune has a way of changing, and nothing remains in the…
• SenecaWe are not in the power of Fortune, but Fortune is in our…
• SenecaFortune has no power over the mind.
• SenecaHe who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is…
• SenecaA friend is a person whom you can trust with your life.
• SenecaFortune is not to be feared.
• SenecaThe mind should be stronger than fortune.
• SenecaFortune reveals the character of a man.
• SenecaFire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.
• SenecaFortune gives the brave a chance to prove themselves.
• SenecaA free mind is one that is not subject to external things.
• SenecaHe who is not afraid of death is free.
• SenecaThe wise man is free from anger.
• SenecaA friend should be sought for the sake of friendship.
• SenecaChoose a friend slowly, but when you have chosen one, be…
• SenecaFriendship makes all things common.
• SenecaThe joy of a friend is our own joy.
• SenecaWithout a friend, life is not worth living.
• SenecaFriendship is desirable for its own sake.
• SenecaTreat your friend as if he were yourself.
• SenecaA man should live for another, if he wishes to live for…
• SenecaThe sorrow of a friend is our own sorrow.
• SenecaHe who regards himself as a friend must regard himself as a…
• SenecaFriendship always treats everyone as equals.
• SenecaNo one can live happily who has regard to himself alone.
• SenecaThe benefit consists in the good will of the giver.
• SenecaGod has a good opinion of us when he sets us difficult…
• SenecaA good character is not formed in a day.
• SenecaAssociate with those who will make you better.
• SenecaA good life is the result of good actions.
• SenecaThe good life follows nature.
• SenecaThe happy life depends upon virtue.
• SenecaThe good man is he who is content with his own virtue.
• SenecaA good man is not made by good fortune.
• SenecaLet us say to ourselves with great energy: 'Let us live.'
• SenecaA benefit is not a thing, but the spirit in which it is…
• SenecaThe good is sufficient in itself.
• SenecaHe who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first…
• SenecaThe man who has received a benefit should show gratitude.
• SenecaHe who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first…
• SenecaThe great man struggles against adversity.
• SenecaA great man is always willing to be little.
• SenecaGreat souls are strengthened by adversity.
• SenecaOur habits form our character.
• SenecaHappiness does not depend on fortune.
• SenecaHappiness consists in living according to nature.
• SenecaThe happy man is sufficient unto himself.
• SenecaA happy life is one which is in accordance with nature.
• SenecaDifficulties strengthen the mind, as labour does the body.
• SenecaHe who is brave is free.
• SenecaHealth is not the good, nor sickness the evil.
• SenecaLet us help one another; we were born for mutual assistance.
• SenecaWhere there is hope, there is fear.
• SenecaMan is sacred to man.
• SenecaWe are members of one great body.
• SenecaNature made us relatives by giving birth to us from the…
• SenecaNo one is born a slave.
• SenecaTreat your inferiors in the way in which you would wish to…
• SenecaNo one can live happily who has regard to himself alone.
• SenecaMan is a sacred thing to man.
• SenecaWe were born for mutual assistance.
• SenecaMan is a sacred thing to man.
• SenecaFreedom is the greatest good.
• SenecaYour mind is what makes you unhappy.
• SenecaThe greatest wealth is a contented mind.
• SenecaIt is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
• SenecaIt is not that we have a short time to live, but that we…
• SenecaIt is not the man who has too little, but the man who…
• SenecaIt is quality rather than quantity that matters.
• SenecaBefore friendship is formed you must judge.
• SenecaWherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity…
• SenecaWherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity…
• SenecaWherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity…
• SenecaWherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity…
• SenecaShow kindness to all, not because they deserve it, but…
• SenecaThe first step toward getting rid of a fault is to…
• SenecaIt is more civilized to make fun of life than to lament…
• SenecaWhat you have learned becomes your own only when you have…
• SenecaIt takes the whole of life to learn how to die.
• SenecaIt takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and, what…
• SenecaWe should take in what we read as nourishment.
• SenecaAssociate with those who will make a better man of you.
• SenecaAs long as you live, keep learning how to live.
• SenecaOnly those who devote themselves to wisdom are truly at…
• SenecaEvery day is a complete life.
• SenecaNature gives us sufficient resources for a happy life.
• SenecaDifficulties are the tests of virtue.
• SenecaAdversity is training for the soul.
• SenecaWe do not receive a short life, but we make it short.
• SenecaHe who fears death will never do anything worthy of a…
• SenecaThe best teaching is the example of a good life.
• SenecaLife is long if you know how to use it.
• SenecaAs long as you live, keep learning how to live.
• SenecaIt is not that life is short, but that we make it short.
• SenecaWe are born to die.
• SenecaLife is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has…
• SenecaWhile we wait for life, life passes.
• SenecaThe whole of life is a school for dying.
• SenecaWe are born only once, but we die many times.
• SenecaLife is a school for dying.
• SenecaLife is slipping away while we are busy making plans.
• SenecaYou act like mortals in all that you fear, and like…
• SenecaWisdom teaches us to live according to nature.
• SenecaA life without friends is not worth living.
• SenecaHe who fears death will never do anything worthy of a…
• SenecaThe happy life is one which is in accordance with its own…
• SenecaHe who has learned how to die has learned how to live.
• SenecaLive for another if you wish to live for yourself.
• SenecaWhile we are postponing, life speeds by.
• SenecaBegin at once to live.
• SenecaLet us teach by our lives.
• SenecaLive simply, and you will have little to fear.
• SenecaLuck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
• SenecaLuxury is not the sign of a rich man, but of a poor one.
• SenecaLuxury has increased our desires, not our needs.
• SenecaMan is a sacred thing to man.
• SenecaThe greatest empire is to be master of oneself.
• SenecaThe mind should be fortified against fortune.
• SenecaThe good is in the mind.
• SenecaThe mind is coloured by the things it contemplates.
• SenecaA mind that is free from fear is invincible.
• SenecaThe mind should be kept in training as carefully as the…
• SenecaIt is the mind that makes us rich or poor.
• SenecaThe mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.
• SenecaThe mind is the master of itself.
• SenecaDeath is the law of life.
• SenecaWe were born for mutual assistance.
• SenecaNature produced us as relatives, since she created us from…
• SenecaNature has made us for mutual assistance.
• SenecaThe natural life is the rational life.
• SenecaThe wise man follows nature.
• SenecaLet us follow nature; it is a mistake to try to imitate…
• SenecaTo live according to nature is to live according to reason.
• SenecaI examine the whole of my day and go back over what I have…
• SenecaFate leads the willing and drags the unwilling.
• SenecaIf you would have no fear, desire nothing.
• SenecaNo man can be good by chance.
• SenecaNo man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity,…
• SenecaNo man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been…
• SenecaNo one is born wise.
• SenecaNobility of birth is not a virtue.
• SenecaNothing is ours, except time.
• SenecaPain is not the evil.
• SenecaThe wise man is not ruled by passion.
• SenecaThe mind that is at peace is not disturbed by the storms of…
• SenecaThe philosopher must be a man who can show by his conduct…
• SenecaPhilosophy gives us the means of becoming better.
• SenecaPhilosophy should mould the character.
• SenecaPhilosophy is not merely words, but a discipline of life.
• SenecaPhilosophy gives us the possibility of living with the wise…
• SenecaPhilosophy makes us contemporaries of all ages.
• SenecaPhilosophy makes us free.
• SenecaPhilosophy forms and moulds the character.
• SenecaOf all those who have leisure, only those are at leisure…
• SenecaPhilosophy is a guide to life.
• SenecaPhilosophy should be lived, not merely discussed.
• SenecaPhilosophy is good advice.
• SenecaPhilosophy is not a subject for the hour of leisure; it is…
• SenecaPhilosophy teaches us to act, not to speak.
• SenecaPhilosophy is not an occupation for a few hours.
• SenecaPoverty is not in want of riches, but in want of desires.
• SenecaPoverty is neither good nor bad.
• SenecaIt is not the man who has too little, but the man who…
• SenecaSet aside a certain number of days, during which you will…
• SenecaVirtue becomes strong through practice.
• SenecaThe greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which…
• SenecaThe greatest obstacle to living is expectancy.
• SenecaThe man who has begun to make progress is already a good…
• SenecaEvery day make yourself a little better.
• SenecaThe first step toward becoming better is to know that you…
• SenecaHe who has begun to make progress is already a good man.
• SenecaGod hardens, reviews, and disciplines those whom he…
• SenecaIt is not the opinion of the crowd that should determine…
• SenecaThe purpose of philosophy is to teach us how to live.
• SenecaA happy life is one that is in harmony with reason.
• SenecaRead always good authors, and if at any time you are…
• SenecaRead always good authors, and if at any time you are…
• SenecaA rational life is a happy life.
• SenecaNature and reason are the guides of the good life.
• SenecaReason is the ruler of the passions.
• SenecaReason wishes to give a decision which is just; anger…
• SenecaReason should be the guide of life.
• SenecaReason is the distinctive good of man.
• SenecaReason is stronger than anger.
• SenecaNature is the best guide.
• SenecaThe greatest good is a mind that despises the accidents of…
• SenecaThe wise man is always calm and tranquil.
• SenecaReason is perfected through practice.
• SenecaReason wants to give a decision which is just; anger wants…
• SenecaReligion is regarded by the common people as true, by the…
• SenecaThe opinion of the crowd is a bad guide to truth.
• SenecaLet us respect one another.
• SenecaA man who spends all his time travelling is always changing…
• SenecaRiches are a burden to those who do not know how to use…
• SenecaRiches are neither good nor bad.
• SenecaThe wise man is not the slave of riches, but their master.
• SenecaHe who has learned to obey himself is free.
• SenecaHe who is able to govern himself is the greatest ruler.
• SenecaThe greatest remedy for anger is delay.
• SenecaNothing will ever please me unless it is also good for me.
• SenecaAssociate with those who will make a better man of you.
• SenecaI am becoming better every day.
• SenecaThe man who is everywhere is nowhere.
• SenecaThe greatest empire is to command oneself.
• SenecaWhen the day has been spent, I examine myself.
• SenecaI scrutinize my entire day and go back over what I have…
• SenecaThe wise man is content with himself.
• SenecaIt is not that we have a short time to live, but that we…
• SenecaA simple life is a happy life.
• SenecaA simple life is the happiest life.
• SenecaHe who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with…
• SenecaNature requires little.
• SenecaHe is your fellow-slave, if you consider that Fortune has…
• SenecaRemember that he whom you call your slave sprang from the…
• SenecaI never bring back from a journey the same person who left.
• SenecaThe wise man can live without a friend, but he does not…
• SenecaSometimes even to live is an act of courage.
• SenecaThe more a man is tested, the more he proves his strength.
• SenecaA brave man is not he who does not feel fear, but he who…
• SenecaYou should linger among a limited number of writers.
• SenecaWe suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
• SenecaLet us teach by our lives.
• SenecaAdversity is the occasion for virtue.
• SenecaThe greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs…
• SenecaThe whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.
• SenecaThere are more things, Lucilius, likely to frighten us than…
• SenecaThe mind takes its character from the things to which it…
• SenecaTime is the one thing which even a grateful recipient…
• SenecaNothing, Lucilius, is ours, except time.
• SenecaCertain moments are torn from us, some are gently removed,…
• SenecaThe largest portion of life passes while we are doing ill,…
• SenecaTomorrow is the great thief of today.
• SenecaPut off nothing; live today.
• SenecaYou should change your mind, not your sky.
• SenecaYou carry your own faults with you wherever you go.
• SenecaLive with your inferior as you would have a superior live…
• SenecaNo tree becomes strong unless many winds have shaken it.
• SenecaHe who is brave is free.
• SenecaThe true nobility is the nobility of the mind.
• SenecaThe mind is never satisfied with what it has.
• SenecaAfter friendship is formed you must trust; before…
• SenecaAfter friendship is formed you must trust.
• SenecaThe wise man will not waste time.
• SenecaLife is long if you know how to use it.
• SenecaWhat man can you show me who places any value on his time?
• SenecaNo man can say that he has not received from us anything of…
• SenecaOnly vice is evil.
• SenecaVirtue is proved by action.
• SenecaVirtue cannot be proved without adversity.
• SenecaVirtue is sufficient for happiness.
• SenecaPain is neither good nor bad.
• SenecaVirtue is always consistent with itself.
• SenecaVirtue is open to all.
• SenecaVirtue is independent of fortune.
• SenecaVirtue does not come suddenly.
• SenecaDifficult things become easy through habit.
• SenecaVirtue is the perfection of reason.
• SenecaVirtue does not need fortune.
• SenecaVirtue is in agreement with nature.
• SenecaVirtue needs no fortune, but fortune gives virtue a field…
• SenecaVirtue is the only good.
• SenecaOnly virtue is good.
• SenecaThe good man is always making progress.
• SenecaVirtue is always consistent and steady.
• SenecaVirtue is strengthened by exercise.
• SenecaVirtue is strengthened by opposition.
• SenecaVirtue is sufficient for itself.
• SenecaNothing is so certain as that we shall waste our lives.
• SenecaWe are not given a short life, but we make it short by…
• SenecaWe are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more…
• SenecaWe suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
• SenecaIt is not the man who has little, but he who craves more,…
• SenecaRiches are not necessary for a happy life.
• SenecaThe wise man possesses riches, but riches do not possess…
• SenecaWhat I advise you to do is, not to be unhappy before the…
• SenecaIt is quality rather than quantity that matters.
• SenecaWhile we wait for life, life passes.
• SenecaThe wise man proves his wisdom by his actions.
• SenecaOld age is an incurable disease, but it is not necessarily…
• SenecaNo age is too late for learning.
• SenecaThe brave man struggles against adversity.
• SenecaNo one can live happily who has regard to himself alone.
• SenecaThe happy life is the life that is in accordance with…
• SenecaNo one knows his strength until he is tested.
• SenecaHe who needs riches least enjoys them most.
• SenecaThe first step is to be willing to learn.
• SenecaWisdom is the greatest good of the human mind.
• SenecaThe philosopher should show by his conduct what he teaches.
• SenecaA man can learn virtue more easily by seeing it than by…
• SenecaWisdom is the freedom of the mind.
• SenecaWisdom does not show itself in words, but in deeds.
• SenecaWisdom is acquired by long practice.
• SenecaThe only people who are really at leisure are those who…
• SenecaTo know how to live is the greatest wisdom.
• SenecaThe wise man knows how to live.
• SenecaIt takes the whole of life to learn how to live.
• SenecaIt is not age that makes a man wise.
• SenecaIt is not birth but virtue that makes a man noble.
• SenecaThe purpose of learning is not to display knowledge, but to…
• SenecaThe lives of the greatest men are available to us through…
• SenecaWisdom is practical knowledge.
• SenecaWe learn not for school but for life.
• SenecaThe philosopher is one who lives according to nature.
• SenecaRetirement without literature is death and burial alive.
• SenecaThe wise man is superior to fortune.
• SenecaThe wise man needs friends, not because they are useful,…
• SenecaThe wise man is never disturbed.
• SenecaThe wise man lives the whole length of his life.
• SenecaThe wise man will allow himself no less time than is…
• SenecaYou act like mortals in all that you fear, and like…
• ShankaraBrahman alone is real; the world is appearance; the…
• ShankaraIgnorance is the cause of bondage; knowledge of the self is…
• Sigmund FreudAnatomy is destiny.
• Sigmund FreudWhere id was, there ego shall be.
• Sigmund FreudThe interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a…
• Simone de BeauvoirEthics is the support of ambiguity. The difficulty is in…
• Simone de BeauvoirMy freedom is tied to that of others. I cannot will myself…
• Simone de BeauvoirTo be free is not to possess freedom as a thing, but to…
• Simone de BeauvoirOne cannot completely understand the condition of women…
• Simone de BeauvoirIn love, the woman often loses her autonomy. She makes her…
• Simone de BeauvoirWoman is imprisoned in immanence—trapped in her body, her…
• Simone de BeauvoirOne is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. No…
• Simone de BeauvoirWoman must be recognized as a moral and autonomous subject,…
• Simone de BeauvoirWoman is defined in relation to man, not man in relation to…
• Simone WeilThe love of God in affliction is the purest form of love.
• Simone WeilAttention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
• Simone WeilGrace fills empty spaces, but it can only do so because it…
• Simone WeilOnly the one who gives without expectation of return truly…
• Simone WeilJustice is the attention to the unhappy as to the most…
• Simone WeilTo be rooted is perhaps the most important and least…
• SocratesCourage is a kind of wisdom.
• SocratesVirtue is knowledge.
• SocratesThe true art of politics is concerned with the care of…
• SocratesRhetoric is the counterpart of cookery in the soul.
• SocratesThe life of injustice is not worth living.
• SocratesBe as you wish to seem.
• SocratesBy all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become…
• SocratesYou will find that I have no other occupation but to go…
• SocratesI shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and…
• SocratesDoing wrong is in every case worse than suffering wrong.
• SocratesEmploy your time in improving yourself by other men's…
• SocratesEnvy is the ulcer of the soul.
• SocratesI shall never cease examining both myself and others.
• SocratesFalse words are not only evil in themselves, but they…
• SocratesTo fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself…
• SocratesI shall follow the truth wherever it may lead.
• SocratesTo talk every day about virtue and the other things about…
• SocratesHe is richest who is content with the least, for content is…
• SocratesI am that gadfly which God has attached to the state.
• SocratesI cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
• SocratesI know that I know nothing.
• SocratesI shall obey God rather than you.
• SocratesIs it not disgraceful that you should take more care of…
• SocratesIt is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with…
• SocratesIt is not living that matters, but living rightly.
• SocratesThe most important thing is not life, but the good life.
• SocratesThe just man is happy, and the unjust man miserable.
• SocratesI care for nothing except that what I do is just.
• SocratesWhat I do not know I do not think I know either.
• SocratesI do not care for money at all.
• SocratesWe ought not to retaliate or render evil for evil to…
• SocratesNo evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after…
• SocratesIt is not difficult to escape death, but it is much more…
• SocratesThere is no one wiser than Socrates.
• SocratesNo evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after…
• SocratesI shall obey God rather than you.
• SocratesOne must never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no…
• SocratesStrong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events,…
• SocratesThe greatest good of man is daily to converse about virtue.
• SocratesThe hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways—I to…
• SocratesThe life which is unexamined is not worth living.
• SocratesThe only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
• SocratesThe unexamined life is not worth living.
• SocratesThe way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what…
• SocratesThere is no one wiser than Socrates.
• SocratesTo fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself…
• SocratesThe unexamined life is not worth living.
• SocratesI tell you that wealth does not bring goodness, but that…
• SocratesVirtue is knowledge.
• SocratesWhat I do not know I do not think I know either.
• SocratesI am wiser than this man; for neither of us really knows…
• SocratesWonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy…
• SocratesDoing wrong is in every case worse than suffering wrong.
• Stephen HawkingHowever difficult life may seem, there is always something…
• Stephen HawkingRemember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet.
• Stephen HawkingThere is no event horizon.
• Sun TzuKnow the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you…
• Sun TzuThe supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without…
• Sun TzuAll warfare is based on deception.
• Swami VivekanandaArise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached.
• Swami VivekanandaStrength is life, weakness is death.
• Søren KierkegaardAnxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
• Søren KierkegaardThe more a man becomes himself, the more he becomes…
• Søren KierkegaardThe more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense…
• Søren KierkegaardFaith is the passion of freedom, and existence cannot be…
• Søren KierkegaardTruth is subjectivity; subjectivity is truth.
• Thales of MiletusAll things are full of gods.
• Thales of MiletusThe sea is the source of all moisture, and moisture is the…
• Thales of MiletusDeath is no different from life.
• Thales of MiletusDo not do the things you would blame in another.
• Thales of MiletusLet your speech not be false, and your deeds not be unjust.
• Thales of MiletusThe earth floats on water, like a ship.
• Thales of MiletusWhat is the easiest? To give advice to another.
• Thales of MiletusA friend is one who is like you in virtue and good will.
• Thales of MiletusThe happiest person has a healthy body, a well-endowed…
• Thales of MiletusWhat is the hardest? To know oneself.
• Thales of MiletusHope is the only thing common to all, even to those who…
• Thales of MiletusDo not be eager to speak before you have considered what…
• Thales of MiletusThe lodestone has soul, because it moves iron.
• Thales of MiletusNothing in excess; choose the mean.
• Thales of MiletusWhat is the most ancient? God, for He is unbegotten.
• Thales of MiletusWhat is the most beautiful? The cosmos, for it is the work…
• Thales of MiletusThe sun will be eclipsed, and the day will be darkened, in…
• Thales of MiletusWhat is the strongest? Necessity, for it masters everything.
• Thales of MiletusThe sphere is the most beautiful of figures.
• Thales of MiletusThe heavenly bodies are made of the same stuff as the earth.
• Thales of MiletusWater is the first principle of all things.
• Thales of MiletusWhat is the wisest? Time, for it discovers all things.
• Thomas AquinasBeware the man of a single book.
• Thomas AquinasFaith is a habit of mind by which eternal life is begun in…
• Thomas AquinasGood is to be done and pursued, and evil is to be avoided.
• Thomas AquinasGrace does not destroy nature, but perfects it.
• Thomas AquinasHope is the reaching out of the appetite for an arduous but…
• Thomas AquinasIt is requisite for the good of the human community that…
• Thomas AquinasLaw is an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by…
• Thomas AquinasSorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass…
• Thomas AquinasThe highest perfection of human life consists in the mind's…
• Thomas AquinasThe things that we love tell us what we are.
• Thomas AquinasThere is nothing in the intellect that was not first in the…
• Thomas AquinasThree things are necessary for the salvation of man: to…
• Thomas AquinasTo love is to will good to someone.
• Thomas AquinasTo one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one…
• Thomas AquinasWonder is the desire for knowledge.
• Thomas HobbesCovenants, without the sword, are but words.
• Thomas HobbesCuriosity is the lust of the mind.
• Thomas HobbesDuring the time men live without a common power to keep…
• Thomas HobbesFear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which…
• Thomas HobbesHell is truth seen too late.
• Thomas HobbesKnowledge is the way to power.
• Thomas HobbesLeisure is the mother of philosophy.
• Thomas HobbesNo man's error becomes his own law, nor obliges him to…
• Thomas HobbesThe condition of man is a condition of war of everyone…
• Thomas HobbesThe life of man: solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
• Thomas HobbesValue, or worth of a man, is as of all other things, his…
• Thomas HobbesWords are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them;…
• Thomas KuhnProgress through Revolutions
• Thomas KuhnWhat were ducks in the world before the revolution are…
• Thomas KuhnThe transition between competing paradigms cannot be made a…
• Thomas KuhnNormal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory.
• Thomas KuhnAnomaly and the Emergence of Scientific Discoveries
• Thomas KuhnThe duck-rabbit figure illustrates a change in perceptual…
• Thomas KuhnParadigm choice involves more than a mechanical deduction…
• Thomas KuhnOnly when they must choose between competing theories do…
• Thomas KuhnA scientific theory is usually felt to be better than its…
• Thomas PaineA long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a…
• Thomas PaineGovernment, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil.
• Thomas PaineHe that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even…
• Thomas PaineIndependence is my happiness, and I view things as they…
• Thomas PaineMy country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
• Thomas PaineMy own mind is my own church.
• Thomas PaineThe sun never shined on a cause of greater worth.
• Thomas PaineThe world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and…
• Thomas PaineThese are the times that try men's souls.
• Thomas PaineTo argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason…
• Thomas PaineTyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered.
• Victor HugoCompassion is the basis of all morality.
• Victor HugoHe who opens a school door closes a prison.
• Victor HugoThere is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the…
• Victor HugoThe supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being…
• Victor HugoThere is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has…
• Viktor FranklAn abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal…
• Viktor FranklWhen we are no longer able to change a situation, we are…
• Viktor FranklEverything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last…
• Viktor FranklThe meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to…
• Viktor FranklBetween stimulus and response there is a space. In that…
• Viktor FranklThose who have a 'why' to live can bear with almost any…
• Walt WhitmanI am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as…
• Walt WhitmanO me! O life! of the questions of these recurring, of the…
• Walt WhitmanI celebrate myself, and sing myself, and what I assume you…
• William JamesConsciousness, then, does not appear to itself chopped up…
• William JamesHabit is the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most…
• William JamesHabit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most…
• William JamesThe war against war will never go well until we work out…
• William JamesThe deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be…
• William JamesThe truth of an idea is not a stagnant property inherent in…
• William JamesThe only things that shall be debatable among us shall be…
• William JamesConsciousness is not a sum of atomic sensations, but rather…
• William JamesTruth is what works; the truth of an idea is not a stagnant…
• William JamesOur passional nature not only lawfully may, but must,…
• William ShakespeareAll the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely…
• William ShakespeareBrevity is the soul of wit.
• William ShakespeareA coward dies a thousand deaths before his time.
• William ShakespeareLord, what fools these mortals be!
• William ShakespeareTo be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis…
• Zeno of CitiumWe should accept what happens as the order of nature, and…
• Zeno of CitiumWe should regard all human beings as fellow citizens of one…
• Zeno of CitiumFriendship is found only among the wise, for only they can…
• Zeno of CitiumHappiness is a smooth flow of life.
• Zeno of CitiumLearn to know the cosmos and your own place within it.
• Zeno of CitiumLive in agreement with nature.
• Zeno of CitiumLogic is the wall that protects the city of philosophy.
• Zeno of CitiumA passion is an irrational and unnatural movement of the…
• Zeno of CitiumPhilosophy is like a living creature: logic is its bones…
• Zeno of CitiumOnly the wise person is free, and every fool is a slave.
• Zeno of CitiumA shipwreck has steered me to philosophy's harbour.
• Zeno of CitiumThe good life is one lived with reason as its guide.
• Zeno of CitiumWe have two ears and one mouth, so that we may listen more…
• Zeno of CitiumVirtue is the only good, and vice is the only evil.
• Zeno of CitiumVirtue alone is sufficient for happiness.
• Zeno of CitiumThe wise person will take part in public life, unless…
• ZhuangziThe fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've…
• ZhuangziEveryone knows the usefulness of the useful, but no one…