Philosophical Quotes - Page 26

But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd joy!

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

I persist in preferring philosophers to rabbis priests imams ayatollahs and mullahs. Rather than trust their theological hocus-pocus I prefer to draw on alternatives to the dominant philosophical historiography: the laughers materialists radicals cynics hedonists atheists sensualists voluptuaries. They know that there is only one world and that promotion of an afterlife deprives us of the enjoyment and benefit of the only one there is. A genuinely deadly sin.

Any religious, philosophical or political idea that doesn't lead one towards love ought to be forsaken

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Be content to seem what you really are.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.

In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely varying the manufacture.

When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing... And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.

The Antichrist, Section 7

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.

Men often act knowingly against their interest.

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

Beloved, there are heights in experimental knowledge of the things of God that the eagles discerning eye and philosophical thought have never seen...God alone can take us there, but the chariot in which He takes us up and the fiery steeds that pull the chariot, are prevailing prayers.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.