Category: philosopher
-
To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.
Heraclitus
-
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
Francis Bacon
-
Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.
Rumi
-
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
Aristotle
-
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Marcus Aurelius
-
Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.
Plato
-
Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
Edmund Burke
-
The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
-
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
Henry David Thoreau
-
Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca