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Quotes by Philosopher
"No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means."
148
"In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary."
148
"Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty."
148
"Genius lives only one storey above madness."
148
"Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy."
148
"Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state."
146
"Busy hands achieve more than idle tongues."
145
"Freedom is the ultimate value in life. Nothing is higher than that."
145
"A rose does not lose sleep because it was mocked by weeds."
144
"To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself."
144
"Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design."
144
"Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow."
143
"Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender."
143
"If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us."
143
"Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them."
143
"If you pour more water into a river, it will not drown the fish."
142
"The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it."
142
"Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves."
142
"My world has just become perfect, midnight is also noonday, pain is also joy, a curse is also a blessing, the night is also a sun " be gone, or you will learn: a wise man is also a fool."
142
"Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis."
142
"What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?"
139
"The caterpillar they despise today is the butterfly they praise tomorrow."
138
"Society is becoming less and less transparent. People no longer know where decisions that substantially affect their lives are taken, nor by whom, nor how."
138
"Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind."
137
"The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom."
136
"A seed rises from dirt to prove to the world that its greatness lies not on what the world thinks of it, but from within."
134
"Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone."
134
"Staring at the mountain requires nothing. Climbing the mountain requires strength. Reaching the mountaintop requires perseverance. Staying at the mountaintop requires wisdom. Reaching for the stars requires everything."
133
"True beauty isn't what you put on your face, it's what you put in people's hearts."
133
"As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because I do not think that there is a conclusive argument by which one can prove that there is not a God. On the other hand, if I am to convey the right impression to the ordinary man in the street I think that I ought to say that I am an Atheist, because, when I say that I cannot prove that there is not a God, I ought to add equally that I cannot prove that there are not the Homeric gods."
133
"I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it."
132
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star."
131
"Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors."
131
"Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart."
130
"The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'"
128
"Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us."
128
"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."
123
"The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding."
121
"Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss."
121
"Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed."
121
"There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say."
121
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