Philosopher Quotes
Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
French priest
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American essayist
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
German Philosopher
The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.
Jeremy Bentham
English philosopher
What is the motive to the secret ballot? This, and only this: Like other confederates in crime, those who use it are not friends, but enemies; and they are afraid to be known, and to have their individual doings known, even to each other.
Lysander Spooner
American entrepreneur
It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be.
Hu Shih
Chinese diplomat
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Lao Tzu
Chinese philosopher
The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.
Avicenna
Polymath
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician
The core of the consulting business is going in and essentially making yourself indispensible by eating the brain of the organization, meaning that the consultants go in and assume key functions in the organization.
Matthew Stewart
American philosopher
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
Montesquieu
French philosopher
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
Bertrand Russell
British mathematician
Think of God; attachments will gradually drop away. If you wait till all desires disappear before starting your devotion and prayer, you will have to wait for a very long time indeed.
Ramana Maharshi
Spiritual Teacher
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American essayist
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
George Santayana
Spanish-American philosopher
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
Lao Tzu
Chinese philosopher
One ought to begin an analysis of power from the ground up, at the level of tiny local events where battles are unwittingly enacted by players who don't know what they are doing.
Ian Hacking
Canadian philosopher
Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.
Bertrand Russell
British mathematician
If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.
Mortimer Adler
American philosopher
We have but one permanent home: heaven - that's still the old truth that we always have to re-learn - and it's only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
French priest
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