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Quotes by Philosopher
"How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree."
161
"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing."
161
"Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will."
160
"For God is my witness that I neither preached, affirmed, nor defended them, though they say that I did."
God,
160
"There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality."
160
"It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood."
159
"Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young."
159
"The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness."
159
"Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time."
159
"I am I plus my circumstances."
158
"Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it."
158
"The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle."
157
"To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed."
157
"We die in proportion to the words we fling around us."
157
"It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge."
157
"One who is thankful for a slice of bread is more blessedthan one who is ungrateful for a loaf."
156
"Don't ruin a good opportunity fixating on a bad one."
155
"On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance."
155
"The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes."
155
"Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires."
154
"Out of difficulties grow miracles."
154
"Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere."
154
"Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity."
154
"Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth."
154
"As water drowns but also cleanses, so adversity scalds but also blesses."
153
"A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
153
"Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim."
153
"I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it."
153
"There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion."
153
"Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it."
152
"Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote."
152
"Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."
152
"We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems."
151
"During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk."
151
"Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library."
150
"Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment."
150
"The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause."
149
"Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil."
149
"By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing."
149
"In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner."
149
"Man does not strive for happiness, only the Englishman does that."
149
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