Famous quotes by Philosophers

"Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live"

Socrates, Philosopher

"Where there is reverence, there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence"

Socrates, Philosopher

"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us"

Socrates, Philosopher

"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing"

Socrates, Philosopher

"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher"

Socrates, Philosopher

"It is not living that matters, but living rightly"

Socrates, Philosopher

"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for"

Socrates, Philosopher

"Beware the barrenness of a busy life"

Socrates, Philosopher

"Great minds think for themselves"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

"A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

"The two great dividers are religion and language"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

"There are two things that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

"Humanity is at its greatest perfection in the race of the whites"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

"All perception is colored by emotion"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

"Give a man everything he wants, and at that moment everything is not everything"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

"The wise man can change his mind; the stubborn one never"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

"But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

"Most men use their knowledge only under guidance from others because they lack the courage to think independently using their own reasoning abilities. It takes intellectual daring to discover the truth"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

"If you punish a child for being naughty, and reward him for being good, he will do right merely for the sake of the reward; and when he goes out into the world and finds that goodness is not always rewarded, nor wickedness always punished, he will grow into a man who only thinks about how he may get on in the world, and does right or wrong according as he finds advantage to himself"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

"Three things tell a man: his eyes, his friends, and his favorite quotes"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

"Patience is the strength of the weak, impatience is the weakness of the strong"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

"We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

"You only know me as you see me, not as I actually am"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

"The disease which inflicts bureaucracy, and what they usually die from, is routine"

John Stuart Mill, Philosopher

"The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power"

John Stuart Mill, Philosopher

"The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments, while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses"

John Stuart Mill, Philosopher

"The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind"

John Stuart Mill, Philosopher

"I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized"

John Stuart Mill, Philosopher

"Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained"

John Stuart Mill, Philosopher

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