Quotes from Philosophers
Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.
--Theodor W. Adorno
If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.--Alain (Émile-Auguste Chartier)
Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.--Henri-Frédéric Amiel
For a war to be just, three conditions are necessary--public authority, just cause, right motive.--Saint Thomas Aquinas
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.--Hannah Arendt
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.--Aristotle
The desire for fame tempts even noble minds.--Saint Augustine
That which is not good for the beehive cannot be good for the bees.--Marcus Aurelius
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.--Gaston Bachelard
Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.--Francis Bacon
In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.--Simone de Beauvoir
Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.--Walter Benjamin
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.--F. H. Bradley
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.--Edmund Burke
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.--Albert Camus
The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.--Cicero
The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.--Georg Hegel
Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.--Thomas Hobbes
The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises is a life full of landmarks. The empty life has even its few details blurred, and cannot be remembered with certainty.--Eric Hoffer
We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.--William James
With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.--Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Every country has the government it deserves.--Joseph de Maistre
Few men have been admired of their familiars.--Michel de Montaigne
Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.--Friedrich Nietzsche
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.--Blaise Pascal
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.--Plato
Hell is other people.--Jean-Paul Sartre
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.--Henry David Thoreau
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