Quotes by Philosophers

Every man's highest, nameless though it be, is his 'living God'. James Martineau
God Man Living Every Though Highest His
The pinafore of the child will be more than a match for the frock of the bishop and the surplice of the priest. James Martineau
Will Bishop More Priest Match Than Child
I, Master John Hus, in chains and in prison, now standing on the shore of this present life and expecting on the morrow a dreadful death, which will, I hope, purge away my sins, find no heresy in myself, and accept with all my heart any truth whatsoever that is worthy of belief. Jan Hus
Life Death Truth Hope Myself Heart Will Master Prison All My Heart Dreadful Worthy Find John Purge Morrow Accept Sins Expecting Whatsoever Any Shore Which Standing Chains Belief Now Away Present Present Life Heresy
As for antichrist occupying the papal chair, it is evident that a pope living contrary to Christ, like any other perverted person, is called, by common consent, antichrist. Jan Hus
Christ Living Other Evident Like Occupying Antichrist Contrary Person Any Common Pope Chair Consent
A precept or command is a general teaching of God, obligating every man under pain of mortal sin - namely, in cases in which he has fallen away from the command. Hence, the saints who for a period of their life lived hypocritically sinned mortally for that period. So also the damned, by persistent false living, sin persistently in Hell. Jan Hus
Life God Man Hell Pain Living Every Cases General He Mortal Sin Namely Period Also Fallen Saints Command False Sinned Precept Persistent Which Teaching Who Lived Hence Away Every Man
I entreat students of letters and other scholars to obey their masters in things good, to imitate them, and diligently apply themselves to letters for the sake of God's honour and their own salvation and that of other men. Jan Hus
God Good Obey Men Own Other Imitate Honour Diligently Students Scholars Masters Sake Salvation Them Themselves Letters Things Apply
For God is my witness that I neither preached, affirmed, nor defended them, though they say that I did. Jan Hus
God Witness Say Though Neither Nor Preached Did Them They Say Defended
I have often had apparitions of hosts of serpents with heads at their tails, but not one was able to bite me; and many other visions. Jan Hus
Me Other Bite Visions Able Tails Had Hosts Heads Often Many
Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age. Jean-Francois Lyotard
Knowledge Age Our Enter Status Postmodern Hypothesis Altered Known Cultures Working Societies
And today more than ever, knowing about that society involves first of all choosing what approach the inquiry will take, and that necessarily means choosing how society can answer. Jean-Francois Lyotard
Today Will First Society Approach Inquiry About More Take Involves Knowing First Of All Answer How Than Means Choosing Ever Necessarily
Increasingly, the central question is becoming who will have access to the information these machines must have in storage to guarantee that the right decisions are made. Jean-Francois Lyotard
Will Made Increasingly Machines Must Access Becoming Question Storage Information Central Decisions Who Right Right Decisions Guarantee
Liberalism does not preclude an organisation of the flow of money in which some channels are used in decision making while others are only good for the payment of debts. Jean-Francois Lyotard
Good Money Decision Others Channels Liberalism Some Only Does Making Debts Which While Decision-Making Organisation Used Payment Flow
What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination. Jean-Francois Lyotard
Science Fine Hypothesis Discrimination Capacity Required Working
If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society. Jean-Francois Lyotard
Knowledge Wish Society Must Developed Highly Most Contemporary Contemporary Society Answer Question Discuss Representation Preliminary Apply
One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine. Jean-Francois Lyotard
Knowledge Decision Society Machine Giant Only Indispensable Principal Accordance Role Decide Decided Act Element
What is new in all of this is that the old poles of attraction represented by nation-states, parties, professions, institutions, and historical traditions are losing their attraction. Jean-Francois Lyotard
Losing Old New Poles Institutions Parties Attraction Traditions Historical Professions
Childhood is the sleep of reason. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Childhood Reason Sleep
Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Life Man Own Every Risk His Right Every Man Preservation
Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Good Will Own Our See Always
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Knowledge Philosopher Pleasure Take His Heard Ceases Being Desire
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Hate Nothing Books About Only Know Talk Us Teach Things
When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
You Affliction Defeat Something Happens Either
God made me and broke the mold. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
God Me Made Broke Mold
Base souls have no faith in great individuals. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Faith Great Individuals Souls Base
We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Others Those Evils Ourselves Only Experienced Pity Which
Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
People Breath Unwholesome Fame Often
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