Philosophical Quotes - Page 31

Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food

Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.

The argument about zoning and the presidency of Nigeria is like the philosophical argument of the egg or the hen. Who is older through the evolutionary process, who came first?

There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical.

To be is to be perceived

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

For only when I err do I get away from what I know and what I understand. If "truth" were what I can understand, it would end up being but a small truth, my-sized. Truth must reside precisely in what I shall never understand.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

Have you ever seen a demonstrable example of equality in your entire life? Can it be glimpsed in any dog show or classroom? In any ping pong game or chess match? Of course not. It is a philosophical abstraction, something nowhere to be found in nature.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

Age steals away all things, even the mind.

A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.