Philosophical Quotes - Page 12

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It's our reality.

I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.

Confine yourself to the present.

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

You cannot step into the same river twice.

In everything, there is a share of everything

We might even invent laws for series or formula in an arbitrary manner, and set the engine to work upon them, and thus deduce numerical results which we might not otherwise have thought of obtaining; but this would hardly perhaps in any instance be productive of any great practical utility, or calculated to rank higher than as a philosophical amusement.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I do? Work for a social and political system, make a girl miserable? Hunt for weaknesses in philosophical systems, fight for moral and esthetic ideals? It’s all too little. I renounce my humanity even though I may find myself alone. But am I not already alone in this world from which I no longer expect anything?

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

In a sense, every human construction, whether mental or material, is a component in a landscape of fear because it exists in constant chaos. Thus children's fairy tales as well as adult's legends, cosmological myths, and indeed philosophical systems are shelters built by the mind in which human beings can rest, at least temporarily, from the siege of inchoate experience and of doubt.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

People are divided into two parts: some of them look for and cannot find anything, others find but are not satisfied.

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

A home without books is a body without soul.