Category: philosopher
-
To be awake is to be alive.
Henry David Thoreau
-
The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
Thomas Hobbes
-
The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.
John Muir
-
Always do what you are afraid to do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
Adam Smith
-
Men don’t and can’t live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don’t live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.
John Ruskin
-
If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.
Maria Montessori
-
Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
Henry David Thoreau
-
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
-
In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin