Philosophical Quotes - Page 39

• Happiness is the highest good

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Highest

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3126, Delphi Classics

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• Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Reasonable

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• Man is condemned to be free

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Freedom, Philosophy, Men

  1946 L'Existentialisme est un humanisme (Existentialism and Humanism,1948) (translated by Philip Mairet).

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• Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative

  Aristotle

  Lying, Perfect, Virtuous

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• I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature

  Baruch Spinoza

  Passion, Emotion, Ifs

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• Virtue is nothing else than right reason

  Seneca the Younger

  Virtue, Reason

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• The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures.

  Democritus

  Philosophy, Men, Brave

  "Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker", translated by Kathleen Freeman, Harvard University Press, (p. 163), 1948.

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• To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality

  John Stuart Mill

  Perfection, Would Be, Done

  John Stuart Mill (1870). “Utilitarianism”, p.25

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• We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone

  Saint Augustine

  Reason, Weak

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• It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity

  Lewis Carroll

  Mistake, Genius, Path

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• We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.

  Jean Toomer

  Philosophy, Existence, Humans

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• To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

  George Berkeley

  Fall, Tree, Sound

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• The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Fall, Wings, Owl

  Philosophy of Right (1821)

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• 'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed

  William Shakespeare

  William Shakespeare, Gwynne Blakemore Evans, Anthony Hecht (1996). “The Sonnets”, p.93, Cambridge University Press

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• A king of infinite space

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Space, Infinite

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [263]

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• Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile

  William Shakespeare

  Light, Seeking

  William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.154

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• Sweet are the uses of adversity

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Sports, Sweet

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 12

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• The man that hath no music in himself

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Men, Venice

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 79

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• The patient must minister to himself

  William Shakespeare

  Patient, Ministers, Antidote

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 3, l. 37

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• There is a tide in the affairs of men

  William Shakespeare

  Opportunity, Men, Sailing And The Sea

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 215

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• There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently

  William Shakespeare

  Dental Work, Endurance, Philosopher

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 5, sc. 1, l. 35

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• What a piece of work is a man

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Pieces

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [316]

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• I think the book you always like best is the one you're about to write.

  Margaret Atwood

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Margaret Atwood (2006). “Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood”

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• Simplify, simplify, simplify.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Wise, Philosophy

  Henry David Thoreau (1937). “The selected works of Thoreau”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same

  Paul Simon

  Strange

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