Philosophical Quotes - Page 11

• Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Mother, Art, Philosophy

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• Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Men, Birth, Should

  Lettres Persanes no. 40 (1721)

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• We need a boundless ethics which will include animals also.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Animal, Needs, Ethics

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• Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Giving, Pressure, Principles

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Aakash Singh, Rimina Mohapatra (2008). “Reading Hegel: The Introductions”, p.115, re.press

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• Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

  Seneca the Younger

  Real, Feels, Display

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The argument about zoning and the presidency of Nigeria is like the philosophical argument of the egg or the hen. Who is older through the evolutionary process, who came first?

  Goodluck Jonathan

  Eggs, Hens, Firsts

  "Transcript: CNN interviews Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan". Interview with Isha Sesay, www.cnn.com. September 30, 2010.

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• If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you reward every student just for being enrolled. You destroy not only education, you destroy society by giving A's to everyone. This is a philosophical consideration that bothers me very much as I sit in the United States Senate and see the great budget allocations going through.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Giving, Society, United States

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• Although you can find certain differences among the Buddhist philosophical schools about how the universe came into being, the basic common question addressed is how the two fundamental principles-external matter and internal mind or consciousness-although distinct, affect one another. External causes and conditions are responsible for certain of our experiences of happiness and suffering. Yet we find that it is principally our own feelings, our thoughts and our emotions, that really determine whether we are going to suffer or be happy.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Buddhist, School

  Dalai Lama (2004). “Dzogchen: The Heart Essence of the Great Perfection”, Snow Lion Publication

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• A great fortune is a great slavery.

  Seneca the Younger

  Money, Slavery, Fortune

  "Ad Polybium De Consolatione" by Seneca the Younger, Ch. VI, line 5, 40–45 AD.

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• In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.

  Elinor Wylie

  Life, Smile, Years

  Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.42, Kent State University Press

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• It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

  Tom Stoppard

  Knowledge, Useless Things, Useless Stuff

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• The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of London, Paris, and Munich.

  Anatole France

  Philosophy, Museums, Paris

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• Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

  Seneca the Younger

  Danger, Exposure, Constant

  "De Providentia", IV in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 158-160), 1922.

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• Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Civilization, Play, Debauchery

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1956). “The Modern Temper”

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• I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Reading, Fearless, Library

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• We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

  Seneca the Elder

  Inspirational, Hurt, Fear

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• He has committed the crime who profits by it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Poverty, Crime, Profit

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

  Seneca the Younger

  Doe, Noble, Poverty

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope?

  Immanuel Kant

  Hope, Ought, Knows

  "Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason".

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• It is not races but individuals that are noble and courageous or ignoble and craven or considerate or persistent or philosophical or reasonable. The race gets credit when the percentage of noble individuals is high.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Race, Class, Noble

  Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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• Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.

  William James

  Philosophy, Men, May

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.61, 谷月社

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• Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.

  Isaac Newton

  Philosophy, Science, Men

  Sir Isaac Newton (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Sir Isaac Newton (Illustrated)”, p.426, Delphi Classics

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• In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.

  Epicurus

  Philosophy, Gains, Defeated

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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  He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

  Confucius

  Education, Giving Up, Knowledge

  Confucius (1998). “论语”

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• Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

  William James

  Philosophy, Sublime, Pursuit

  William James, Frederick Burkhardt, Fredson Bowers, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (1979). “Some Problems of Philosophy”, p.199, Harvard University Press

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