Philosophical Quotes - Page 27

• Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

  Seneca the Younger

  Heart, Blame

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

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• Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.

  Epictetus

  Laughing

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• Everything in the world is purchased by labor.

  David Hume

  World, Labor

  David Hume (1758). “Essays and Treatises on several subjects, etc. New edition”, p.153

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• The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Heart, Prosperity, Moderation

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Taken, Jail, Enemy

  Thomas Hobbes (1651). “Leviathan: Or, The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill”, p.391

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• There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Two, Facts, Kind

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• De omnibus dubitandum

  Rene Descartes

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• Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mean, Men, Honor

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.43, 谷月社

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• Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

  Seneca the Younger

  Fall, Ruins

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

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• Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will fall into artistic shape when truth will not?

  George Orwell

  Honesty, Lying, Fall

  George Orwell (1998). “A patriot after all, 1940-1941”, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd

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• The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Reason, Highways, Footwear

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• If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  God, Two Sides, Giving

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• To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

  Seneca the Younger

  Art, Political, Able

  "The Madness of Hercules". Book by Seneca the Younger, circa 54 AD.

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• An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Needs, Process, Criteria

  Garth Hallett, Ludwig Wittgenstein (1977). “A companion to Wittgenstein's "Philosophical investigations"”, Cornell Univ Pr

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• Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Motivational, Philosophy, Phantoms

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose.

  Robert Breault

  Philosophy, Two, Noses

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• He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Philosophy, Taken, Eternity

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.33, Lulu.com

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• The Second Amendment's language and historical and philosophical background demonstrated that it was designed to guarantee individuals the possession of certain kinds of arms for three purposes: (1) crime prevention or what we would today describe as self-defense; (2) national defense; and (3) preservation of individual liberty.

  Don Kates

  Gun, Self, Historical

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• Creationists often appeal to the facts of science to support their view, and evolutionists often appeal to philosophical assumptions from outside science.

  Jonathan Sarfati

  Views, Support, Facts

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• Being a philosophical naturalist does not mean that one thinks that science can provide all of the answers. That is scientism and that is wrong. I don't think a billion buckets of science could speak to the problems raised by the Tea Party. Being a philosophical naturalist does not mean that one thinks that the only truths are those of science. I think the claim just made in the last sentence is true but I don't think it is a claim of science. It means that you use science where you can and you respect and try to emulate its standards.

  Michael Ruse

  Party, Mean, Thinking

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• During all the first part of the Middle Ages, no other people made as important a contribution to human progress as did the Arabs, if we take this term to mean all those whose mother-tongue was Arabic, and not merely those living in the Arabian peninsula. For centuries, Arabic was the language of learning, culture and intellectual progress for the whole of the civilized world with the exception of the Far East. From the IXth to the XIIth century there were more philosophical, medical, historical, religiuos, astronomical and geographical works written in Arabic than in any other human tongue.

  Philip Khuri Hitti

  Mother, Islamic, Mean

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• We have embarked globally on a path of unsustainable development. Our lifestyles, the way we produce goods and services, are all part of a system that is completely unsustainable. I see solutions to climate change leading to a much larger philosophical shift in the way human society develops. We need a new matrix to define what human progress is.

  Rajendra K. Pachauri

  Progress, Development, Way

  "Nobel peace prize winner: 'It's all about green energy'" by Rajendra K. Pachauri, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2009.

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• In practice a photographer does not concern himself with philosophical issues while working; he makes photographs, working with subject matter that he thinks will make the pictures.

  John Szarkowski

  Photography, Thinking, Issues

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  Nothing appears more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers.

  David Hume

  Passion, Eye, Men

  David Hume (2010). “Moral and Political Philosophy”, p.406, Simon and Schuster

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• Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It's our reality.

  Bill McKibben

  Reality, Global Warming, Threat

  Bill McKibben (2010). “Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet”, p.13, Macmillan

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