Famous quotes by Philosophers

"Who rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

"We inhabit a language rather than a country"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

"The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

"In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

"God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

"Nature and wisdom never are at strife"

Plutarch, Philosopher

"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality"

Plutarch, Philosopher

"The wildest colts make the best horses"

Plutarch, Philosopher

"To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days"

Plutarch, Philosopher

"The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil"

Plutarch, Philosopher

"Neither blame or praise yourself"

Plutarch, Philosopher

"Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony, must investigate discord"

Plutarch, Philosopher

"It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors"

Plutarch, Philosopher

"In words are seen the state of mind, and character, and disposition of the speaker"

Plutarch, Philosopher

"I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions"

Plutarch, Philosopher

"Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself"

Plutarch, Philosopher

"Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage"

Plutarch, Philosopher

"All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own"

Plutarch, Philosopher

"Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead, they are no more than corpses"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

"There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

"In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

"To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

"To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

"There is one and only one thing in modern society more hideous than crime, namely repressive justice"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

"There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

"The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

"If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

"Humility is attentive patience"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

"Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

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