Philosopher Quotes

Karl Marx

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Aristotle

Immanuel Kant

Voltaire

Plato

Confucius

A soul which is conversant with virtue is like an ever flowing source, for it is pure and tranquil and potable and sweet and communicative (social) and rich and harmless and free from mischief.

No one regards things before his feet But views with care the regions of the sky.

Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially.

At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This application of the device is good and just. It is indeed only malefactors of all estates who prevent the citizen from being free. In the country in which all such men were in the galleys, the most perfect liberty would be enjoyed.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In caring for others and serving heaven,
There is nothing like using restraint.

A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within 10 seconds.

Give me matter and I will construct a world out of it!

The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.

He who is not sage and wise, humane and just, cannot use secret agent.s. And he who is not delicate and subtle cannot get the truth out of them.

I used often to go to America during Prohibition, and there was far more drunkenness there then than before; the prohibition of pornography has much the same effect.

Bertrand Russell

If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.

My studies gave me only a very superficial knowledge of philosophy but sharpened my interest in it. I benefited greatly from being a teacher—that is, from being able to spend a great deal of time reading, writing and educating myself.

Simone de Beauvoir

Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

Søren Kierkegaard

Tenderness between people is nothing other than awareness of the possibility of relations without purpose.

Theodor W. Adorno

For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep.

In this loveless everyday life eroticism is a substitute for love.

The physician cannot prescribe by letter... he must feel the pulse.

Seneca the Younger

Brutes are deprived of the high advantages which we have; but they have some which we have not. They have not our hopes, but theyare without our fears; they are subject like us to death, but without knowing it; even most of them are more attentive than we to self-preservation, and do not make so bad a use of their passions.

Necessity is an evil; but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity.

Nothing can come into being from that which is not, or pass away into what is not.

As, in Sense, that which is really within us, is (as I have said before) only Motion, caused by the action of external objects, but in appearance; to the Sight, Light and Color; to the Ear, Sound; to the Nostril, Odor, &c.

I am accustomed to distinguish two things in the mathematics, the history and the science. By history I mean what is already discovered, and is committed to books. And by the science, the skill of resolving all questions.

René Descartes

The animal is a system of different organic molecules, which, impelled by dim sensations similar to those of obtuse and vague touch - sensations which have been imparted to them by Him who created matter in general - have combined, until each has found the position most suitable to its form and to its repose.