Famous quotes by Philosophers

"I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic"

Judith Butler, Philosopher

Judith Butler

"The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter"

Herbert Spencer, Philosopher

Herbert Spencer

"The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing"

Herbert Spencer, Philosopher

Herbert Spencer

"Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious"

Herbert Spencer, Philosopher

Herbert Spencer

"No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy"

Herbert Spencer, Philosopher

Herbert Spencer

"Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit"

Herbert Spencer, Philosopher

Herbert Spencer

"Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage""

Herbert Spencer, Philosopher

Herbert Spencer

"Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman"

Herbert Spencer, Philosopher

Herbert Spencer

"In science, the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances"

Herbert Spencer, Philosopher

Herbert Spencer

"How often misused words generate misleading thoughts"

Herbert Spencer, Philosopher

Herbert Spencer

"Education has for its object the formation of character"

Herbert Spencer, Philosopher

Herbert Spencer

"Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold"

Herbert Spencer, Philosopher

Herbert Spencer

"An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature"

Herbert Spencer, Philosopher

Herbert Spencer

"All socialism involves slavery"

Herbert Spencer, Philosopher

Herbert Spencer

"When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has, the greater will be his confusion"

Herbert Spencer, Philosopher

Herbert Spencer

"The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong"

Herbert Spencer, Philosopher

Herbert Spencer

"Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society"

Herbert Spencer, Philosopher

Herbert Spencer

"Science is organized knowledge"

Herbert Spencer, Philosopher

Herbert Spencer

"People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal"

Herbert Spencer, Philosopher

Herbert Spencer

"Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources"

Herbert Spencer, Philosopher

Herbert Spencer

"When one is frightened of the truth, then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

Ludwig Wittgenstein

"What can be shown, cannot be said"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Our greatest stupidities may be very wise"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

Ludwig Wittgenstein

"One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

Ludwig Wittgenstein

"The world is independent of my will"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

Ludwig Wittgenstein

"The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

Ludwig Wittgenstein

"The limits of my language means the limits of my world"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why, even in our culture, marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony?"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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