Quotes by Philosophers

Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed. Jean de la Bruyere
Great Great Deal Giving Liberality Consists Gifts Deal Well-Timed Than Less
A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others. Jean de la Bruyere
Man Woman Better Own Others Secret Another His Than Keep Her
Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late. Jean de la Bruyere
Too Late Thought Too Late Seven Everything Has-Been Thousand Thousand Years More Said Been Years Than Human Human Thought
You may be able to read Bernard Shaw's plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education? Jiddu Krishnamurti
Education You Creative Yourself Philosopher Bernard Able Some Shakespeare Point Voltaire New Read Intelligent May Quote Plays
In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Life Conflict Corner Out Minimum Find Seeking Generally Step Comfort Quiet Afraid Where Then Seclusion
Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Truth You People Impossible Path Organization Will First See Lead Along Particular Understand How Limitless Nor Whatsoever Any Being Cannot Formed Then Should Organize Organized Belief Coerce
Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself. Johann Georg Hamann
Language Think Ability Entire Only Rests Crux Also Misunderstanding Itself Reason
Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it. Johann Georg Hamann
Signs Pure Understanding AIDS Relations Our Worshipping Absolutely Scholastic Attention Concepts Dealt Being Cannot Which Reason Awaken Belief Things
Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert. Johann Georg Hamann
Freedom Nothing Dessert Sumptuous Thus Public Use Reason
All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward. Johann Georg Hamann
Wisdom Grief Reward Worries Human Works Human Wisdom
If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times. Johann Georg Hamann
Word Three Single Eloquent Would More Only Single Word Repeat Times Than
The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece. Johann Georg Hamann
Consider Our Everything Ourselves Weakness See Beauties Piece Makes Making Flaws Us Reason
By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands. Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Man Mind Master Foreign Aid Aid Dancer Philosophy Rests Feet Boxer Without Foreign His Itself Hands Henceforth
Full surely there is a blessedness beyond the grave for those who have already entered on it here, and in no other form than that wherein they know it here, at any moment. Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Other Those Entered Blessedness Beyond Know Surely Than Any Form Wherein Full Moment Who Grave Here
Our beliefs create the kind of world we believe in. We project our feelings, thoughts and attitudes onto the world. I can create a different world by changing my belief about the world. Our inner state creates the outer and not vice versa. John Bradshaw
Thoughts World Feelings Vice Versa Believe Changing State Our Project Kind Outer About Onto Attitudes Versa Different Vice Create Creates Belief Beliefs Different World Inner
It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn. John Bradshaw
Mistakes Our Okay Make Learn Us Teachers Help
You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness. John Bradshaw
You Passion Energy Find Shakespeare More Traditional Freshness Than Want Works Bring
As a child I was not allowed to express my feelings, so I had to go back through therapy and express the child's pain. John Bradshaw
Feelings Pain Back Through Had Allowed Go Child Therapy Express
Many self-help books give you these neat, tidy formulas that are really illusions. They dupe people into thinking, 'Well if I can just do that, then everything's going to be okay.' My work differs in that I don't offer quick solutions and simple explanations. John Bradshaw
Work You People Simple Thinking Everything Books Okay Solutions Give Well Tidy Self-Help Quick Offer Dupe Going Just Formulas Explanations Then Really Many Illusions Neat Differs
I try to get people thinking, to consider their pasts and presents, ultimately encouraging them and giving them the tools to embrace the work of reshaping their lives. John Bradshaw
Work People Try Giving Thinking Consider Tools Embrace Ultimately Encouraging Get Them Lives Presents
Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live. John Dewey
Man Goals Live Some Reach Without Efforts
Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid. John Dewey
Good Will Stupid Luck Back Way Bad Always Intelligent Us Showing
Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties. John Dewey
Man World Uncertainties Mystery Man Lives Lives
One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart. John Dewey
Good Heart Good Intentions Bad Some Intentions Deeds Many Lives Conscience
We shall be inclined to pronounce the voyage that led to the way to this New World as the most epoch-making event of all that have occurred since the birth of Christ. John Fiske
World Christ Birth Way Pronounce Shall Since New Most Voyage Occurred Led New World Inclined Event
Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed. John Fiske
Reality Matter Sense Constructed Empirical Any Conventions Which Realism Fidelity
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