Famous quotes by Philosophers

"Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

"When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her?"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

"We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

"Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

"The world is all a carcass and vanity, the shadow of a shadow, a play, and in one word, just nothing"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

"It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

"It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

"If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

"I know well what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

"How many condemnations I have witnessed, more criminal than the crime!"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

"However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

"How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

"Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

"Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

"Base souls have no faith in great individuals"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

"All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

"Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

"Even from their infancy, we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning, and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

"A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

"A wise man never loses anything if he has himself"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

"A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

"Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity. Successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results"

William James, Philosopher

"'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories"

William James, Philosopher

"Truth is what works"

William James, Philosopher

"The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world, by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way"

William James, Philosopher

"Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different"

William James, Philosopher

"Wisdom is learning what to overlook"

William James, Philosopher

"There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers"

William James, Philosopher

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