Category: philosopher
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The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.
Bertrand Russell
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Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
Francis Bacon
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If you would judge, understand.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Lao Tzu
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None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Thomas Carlyle
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How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.
Noam Chomsky
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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
Adam Smith
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There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.
William James
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
Jean-Paul Sartre