Philosophical Quotes - Page 17

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and power - are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?

No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.

Democracy passes into despotism.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

The chasm between the beauty and seriousness of the work, and what it has become, has overwhelmed me. The commercialization has reduced the aesthetic and philosophical impact of the creation to nothing. There is only one solution for me: to turn my head away.

If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.