Famous quotes by Philosophers

"Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

Albert Camus

"Acorns were good until bread was found"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

Francis Bacon

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

Francis Bacon

"Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

Francis Bacon

"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

Francis Bacon

"Fortune is like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

Francis Bacon

"Prevention is better than cure"

Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher

Desiderius Erasmus

"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do"

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

Jean-Paul Sartre

"Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have"

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

Jean-Paul Sartre

"Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

Karl Marx

"It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows"

Epictetus, Philosopher

Epictetus

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook"

William James, Philosopher

William James

"To be is to do"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

Immanuel Kant

"It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being"

John Stuart Mill, Philosopher

John Stuart Mill

"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative"

John Stuart Mill, Philosopher

John Stuart Mill

"All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

Immanuel Kant

"All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

Immanuel Kant

"There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch"

Robert Brault, Philosopher

Robert Brault

"Only the dead have seen the end of the war"

George Santayana, Philosopher

George Santayana

"Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness"

George Santayana, Philosopher

George Santayana

"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it"

George Santayana, Philosopher

George Santayana

"Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

Arthur Schopenhauer

"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

Arthur Schopenhauer

"The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring"

Bernard Williams, Philosopher

Bernard Williams

"I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy"

Bernard Williams, Philosopher

Bernard Williams

"A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't"

Bernard Williams, Philosopher

Bernard Williams

"I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

Emile M. Cioran

"The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle"

Swami Sivananda, Philosopher

Swami Sivananda

"The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits"

Plutarch, Philosopher

Plutarch

"Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause"

Plutarch, Philosopher

Plutarch

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