Quotes by Philosophers

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Innocent First Later Something Mystery Step Conceal Sooner Towards Sooner Or Later Likes First Step Vice Reason Whoever Actions Shroud

I only see clearly what I remember. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Remember See Only Clearly

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Good Bad Know Really Fortune

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world. Jean-Paul Sartre

War World National Community Those Members Total Total War Longer Involve Well Another Because Waged National Community May Against Whole

To eat is to appropriate by destruction. Jean-Paul Sartre

Destruction Appropriate Eat

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens. Jean-Paul Sartre

You Say Trigger Abstract Understand After Anything Happens Pull

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me. Jean-Paul Sartre

God Me Justice Care About Issue Jupiter Human Teach Need

When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman. Jean de la Bruyere

Work Good Thoughts You Judge Master Other Spirits Inspires Lifts Noble Look Any Craftsman Product Your Standard Bold

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect. Jean de la Bruyere

Good Cause Good Taste Sense Lies Good Sense Between Effect Taste Difference

Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within. Jean de la Bruyere

Within Makes Politeness Should Appear

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished. Jean de la Bruyere

People Composed Like Court Polished Very Hard Marble Palace

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together. Jean de la Bruyere

Love Alone Together Recognize Dawn Feel Decline

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father. Jean de la Bruyere

Good Mother Father Crime Poverty Sense Good Sense Lack May

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Jean de la Bruyere

Good Mind Good Mind Writes Divinely Reasonably Thinks Mediocre

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone. Jean de la Bruyere

Love Alone Beginning Embarrassed Find End Lovers Themselves Two

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men. Jean de la Bruyere

Alone Character Men Gives Motive Which Actions

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work. Jean de la Bruyere

Life Work You World Before Pursuit Trade Fame Much Your

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman. Jean de la Bruyere

Good Thoughts You Book Made Manly Other Seek Spirit Excellence Inspires Noble Test Your Workman Raises

It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not. Jean de la Bruyere

Character You People Care Birth High Know Whether Fortunate Less

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched. Jean de la Bruyere

Happy Seeks Entirely Wretched Make Loved Loved One Cannot