Famous quotes by Philosophers

"Language is a part of our organism, and no less complicated than it"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

"Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

"It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

"It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher, not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

"I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment!"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

"For a truly religious man, nothing is tragic"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

"Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

"A picture is a fact"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

"A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

"A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness, in a seclusion, in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

"A confession has to be part of your new life"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

"Ambition is the immoderate desire for power"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

"Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

"Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

"None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

"Happiness is a virtue, not its reward"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

"Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

"True virtue is life under the direction of reason"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

"To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

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

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

"One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

"It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud, and imagine himself pleasing to all, when he is in reality a universal nuisance"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

"If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

"I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

"God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

"The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

"Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

"Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

"I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

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