Philosopher Quotes

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

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

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

That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Theodor W. Adorno

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

Man's education begins at birth; before he can speak or hear, he is already learning.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

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

Seneca the Younger

People do not understand what it costs in time and suffering to learn how to read. I have been working at it for eighty years, and I still can't say that I've succeeded.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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.

Make a vessel of wax and put it in the sea, fastening its mouth in such a way as to prevent any water getting in. Then the water that percolates through the wax sides of the vessel is sweet, the earth stuff, the admixture of which makes the water salt, being separated off as it were by a filter.

Anthropocentrism gave rise to boredom, and when anthropomorphism was replaced by technocentrism, boredom became even more profound.

The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism

As any sin passes through its stages from temptation, to toleration, to approval, its name is first euphemized, then avoided, then forgotten. A colleague tells me that some of his fellow legal scholars call child molestation "intergenerational intimacy": that's euphemism. A good-hearted editor tried to talk me out of using the term "sodomy": that's avoidance. My students don't know the word "fornication" at all: that's forgetfulness.

J. Budziszewski

What is the most effective, practical way of raising the wealth of nations? What causes wealth? I have come to think that the dream of democratic socialism is inferior to the dream of democratic capitalism, and that the latter's superiority in actual practice is undeniable.

Whatever fate may be in store for philosophy, her history can hardly fail to present a twofold interest ; for philosophical ideas are symptoms of the direction in which the spiritual development of the age is tending, and they are attempts to solve the great problems which have their root in the theoretical and practical relations in which man stands to the Universe of which he is a part.

Harald Høffding

That which makes you want more money is the same as that which makes the plant grow; it is life seeking fuller expression.

Wallace Wattles

As you discover your daily good, and believe in it, and think about it, expect it to continue.

What philosophy worthy of the name has truly been able to avoid the link between poem and theorem?

All forms of yoga involve occult assumptions, even hatha yoga, which is often presented as a merely physical discipline.

Douglas Groothuis

A collection of errors does not make a truth: quality cannot stem from quantity – a value is not a weight. The reasons of the majority cannot be taken as good reasons.

Alain de Benoist

The moral and religious teachings of no bible reach a higher altitude than the intelligence and mental development of the age and country which produced it.

God does not work by only one method, paint in only one color, play in only one key, nor does he make only one star shine onto the earth...

Eberhard Arnold

Being happy is a great science. If you are not happy, do not be confused. Happiness is hard to achieve.