Philosophical Quotes - Page 14

• For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Happiness, Money

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

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• True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

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

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• A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

  Seneca the Younger

  Happiness, Happy, Men

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• He who has great power should use it lightly.

  Seneca the Younger

  Leadership, Vision, Use

  "Troades". Line 336, 1st century.

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• One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

  Seneca the Younger

  Friendship, Beautiful, Loyalty

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• Where fear is, happiness is not.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

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• Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Lying, Knowledge, Too Much

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (64e), 1980.

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• Reason in man is rather like God in the world.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Knowledge, Men, Catholic

  Saint Thomas Aquinas (1951). “Philosophical Texts”, London : Oxford University Press

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• It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the other beings too have been intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of anything else.

  Maimonides

  Nature, Animal, Men

  Moses Maimonides (2010). “The Guide of the Perplexed”, p.452, University of Chicago Press

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• Scientific evidence for God's existence is being claimed today by theists, many of whom carry respectable scientific or philosophical credentials. He who is neither a she nor an it supposedly answers prayers and otherwise dramatically affects the outcome of events. If these consequences are as significant as believers say, then the effects should be detectable in properly controlled experiments.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Prayer, Religion, Atheism

  Victor J. Stenger (2003). “Has Science Found God?: The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe”, Pyr Books

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• The ancient Greeks did not have to wrestle with the philosophical problem of the existence of evil. They did not claim their gods were good, just magnificent.

  Margaret Visser

  Evil, Greek, Religion

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• I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed.

  Max Born

  Philosophy, Believe, Science

  "Experiment and Theory in Physics" by Max Born, (p. 44), 1943.

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• See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

  Seneca the Younger

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Better Off

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• Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Truth, Fear, Lying

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

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• Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

  Karl Marx

  Life, Happiness, People

  Karl Marx, Loyd David Easton, Kurt H. Guddat (1997). “Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society”, p.39, Hackett Publishing

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• You cannot step into the same river twice.

  Heraclitus

  Inspirational, Change, Rivers

  Heraclitus (2003). “Fragments”, p.97, Penguin

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• Too fair to worship, too divine to love.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Worship, Divine, Fairs

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• "Historians of every generation, I believe, unless they are pure antiquarians, see history against the background - the controlling background - of current events. They call upon it to explain the problems of their own time, to give to those problems a philosophical context, a continuum in which they may be reduced to proportion and perhaps made intelligible."

  Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

  Believe, History, Giving

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• He that does good to another does good also to himself.

  Seneca the Younger

  Teamwork, Kindness, Doe

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• Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.

  Hippocrates

  Inspiring, Animal, Vegetarianism

  "Hippocrates".

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• All art is but imitation of nature.

  Seneca the Younger

  Art, Garden, Imitation

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXV)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1917.

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• He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, God, Spiritual

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• Money is human happiness in the abstract.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Money, Riches, Wealth

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2013). “Religion From the Essays of Arhur Schopenhauer”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• Laughter... the most civilized music in the world.

  Peter Ustinov

  Laughter, World, Civilized

  Dear Me (1977) ch. 3

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• We now possess four principles of morality: 1) a philosophical: do good for its own sake, out of respect for the law; 2) a religious: do good because it is God's will, out of love of God; 3) a human: do good because it will promote your happiness, out of self-love; 4) a political: do good because it will promote the welfare of the society of which you are a part, out of love of society having regard to yourself. But is this not all one single principle, only viewed from different sides?

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Religious, Character, Self

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