Tag: philosopher
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Aristotle: Foolish corner
There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man. -Aristotle, philosopher (384-322 BCE)
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Rabindranath Tagore: Bigotry and truth
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it. -Rabindranath Tagore, philosopher, author, songwriter, painter, educator, composer, Nobel Prize in literature (1861-1941). Embed from Getty Images
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Aristotle: Mark of an educated mind
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -Aristotle, philosopher (384-322 BCE)
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Chief event
Embed from Getty Images A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882).
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: Doing the opposite
To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation. -Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, scientist and philosopher (1742-1799)
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Bertrand Russell: Individual existence
An individual human existence should be like a river: small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose […]
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Francis Bacon: Root of all superstition
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. –Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman (1561-1626). Embed from Getty Images Related articles How do we know what causes human behavior? (psychologytoday.com) How to Make Anything Signify Anything (3quarksdaily.com) Try, try, and try again! (qwestore.wordpress.com) Cocaine, Celebrity […]
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Raoul Vaneigem: More truths
There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man’s life than in all the philosophies. -Raoul Vaneigem, writer and philosopher (b.1934)
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Defrauding myself
When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882). Embed […]
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Voltaire: Animals
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills. -Voltaire, philosopher and writer (1694-1778) […]
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Aristotle: Philosophy
I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. –Aristotle, philosopher (384-322 BCE)
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: Courage
A very popular error: having the courage of one’s convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one’s convictions. -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900).
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: Convictions
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. –Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900) Related articles My hero: Friedrich Nietzsche by Geoff Dyer (guardian.co.uk) Could Nietzsche forsee the circumstances we live in? [Fatimea Tedora] (ecademy.com) Lives of the Philosophers, Warts and All (nytimes.com) So Here’s What I Think About Happiness–Part 1 (bigthink.com) Lives of the […]
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Albert Camus: Absolute justice
Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction: therefore it destroys freedom. –Albert Camus, writer, philosopher, Nobel laureate (1913-1960). Embed from Getty Images Related articles Co-ordination and disintegration (linusfernandes.com)
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Prosperity and calamity
No man has a prosperity so high or firm, but that two or three words can dishearten it; and there is no calamity which right words will not begin to redress. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882).
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Charles de Montesquieu: Useless Laws, Necessary Laws
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws. -Charles de Montesquieu, philosopher and writer (1689-1755).
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Pierre Bayle: Neither less wit nor less invention
There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought. -Pierre Bayle, philosopher and writer (1647-1706) Embed from Getty Images
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Eric Hoffer: Nationalist pride
Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect. -Eric Hoffer, philosopher and author (1902-1983)
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Solitude
Image via Wikipedia It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. –Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882) Related articles […]
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Albert Camus: Last Judgement
Don’t wait for the Last Judgement. It takes place every day. -Albert Camus, writer and philosopher (1913-1960)
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Diogenes: Superiors’ fire
A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze. -Diogenes, philosopher (412?-323 BCE)
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: No opinion at all
Nothing contributes more to peace of soul than having no opinion at all. -Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, scientist and philosopher (1742-1799)
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Jean-Paul Sartre: Loaded pistols
Words are loaded pistols. -Jean-Paul Sartre, writer and philosopher (1905-1980).
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Friedrich Nietzsche: Vanity, Habit and Fear
One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear. -Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900). Embed from Getty Images
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Louis de Bonald: Literature
Image via Wikipedia Literature is the language of society, as speech is the language of man. –Louis de Bonald, philosopher and politician (1754-1840) Related articles by Zemanta One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. […]
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Henri Frederic Amiel: Make Use Of Suffering
Image via Wikipedia You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering. –Henri Frederic Amiel, philosopher and writer (1821-1881) Related articles by Zemanta Integrity (linusfernandes.com) Magniloquent French Sage Bernard-Henri Levy Stumped by Dastardly Totalitarian ‘Wikipedia’ [Phil-lol-sophers] (gawker.com) Montaigne, philosopher of life, part 5 | […]
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Omar Khayyam: Hell, paradise and flowers
Image via Wikipedia Oh, threats of hell and hopes of paradise! / One thing at least is certain — this life flies; / One thing is certain, and the rest is lies; / The flower that once has blown forever dies. –Omar Khayyam, poet, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer, and physician (1048-1131) Related articles by Zemanta Omar […]
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Jose Ortega Y Gasset: Me and my surroundings
Image via Wikipedia I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself. –Jose Ortega Y Gasset, philosopher and essayist (1883-1955) Related articles by Zemanta Ortega y Gasset, Read, and Block on “Left and Right” (stephankinsella.com)
Quite a Quote! 