Famous quotes by Philosophers

"If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it"

"I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia"

"Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss"

"Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong"

"Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity"

"By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich"

"Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul"

"Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence"

"Some books leave us free and some books make us free"

"Earth laughs in flowers"

"Every artist was first an amateur"

"This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it"

"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact"

"A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession"

"The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society"

"The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs"

"The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people"

"We die in proportion to the words we fling around us"

"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead"

"The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress"

"Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense"

"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character"

"People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know"

"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding"

"Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant"

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail"

"Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual"

"Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be"

"Our best thoughts come from others"

"All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen"