Category: philosopher
-
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Soren Kierkegaard
-
Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.
Thomas Aquinas
-
Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
John Ruskin
-
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
Aristotle
-
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
Thomas Carlyle
-
Sin is geographical.
Bertrand Russell
-
It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.
Arthur Schopenhauer
-
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
-
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his ‘divine service.’
Friedrich Nietzsche
-
Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
Thomas Hobbes