Quotes by Philosophers

Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language. Kenneth Burke
Nature Light Language Secular Our Purpose Throw Simply Principles How Ask Usable Theological Shown
What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos. Kerry Thornley
Imagination Chaos Prevailing Merely Order Form Imagine
The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours. Lao Tzu
Goodness Honours Sun Shadow Cast Higher He Greater Praise Covet Rewards Cannot Doth Avoid Less Even
He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much. Lao Tzu
He Little Much Who
If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness. Lao Tzu
You Long Feeling Has-Been Point Sharpened Sharpness Been Cannot Keep Preserve
It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins. Lao Tzu
Nature Better Own Duty Follow Never He Perform Well Another Does Reveals However His Sins Than May Who Defective
All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable, which makes you see something you weren't noticing, which makes you see something that isn't even visible. Leo Strauss
You Thinking Visible See Seeing Something Makes Were Which Noticeable Noticing Even
God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible. Leo Strauss
God Bible Unknowable Premise Therefore Fundamental
God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of the world - and man. Leo Strauss
God Man World Creation Must Him His Account Communicating Reason Reasons
If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom. Leo Strauss
Wisdom Man Unknowable Virtue Highest Cannot Capacity Then Theoretical Things
Each man must reach his own verdict, by weighing all the relevant evidence. Leonard Peikoff
Man Own Evidence Relevant Must Weighing Reach Verdict His Each Each Man
The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas. Leonard Peikoff
Men Ideas Most Majority Era Dominant Dependent Among
You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language. Ludwig Wittgenstein
You Language Pain Concept Learned
Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental. Ludwig Wittgenstein
World Logic Doctrine Transcendental Body
Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep. Ludwig Wittgenstein
You Dangerous Resting Laurels Off Walking Snow Die Your Sleep
A picture is a fact. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Picture Fact
The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Behavior Language Unknown System Reference Common Which Mankind Means Interpret
It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Music People Characteristic Vastly Know How Improved Fewer Just Reproduction Should Who Mechanics Played
What can be shown, cannot be said. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Said Cannot Shown
An inner process stands in need of outward criteria. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Criteria Outward Process Stands Inner Need
Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Today War Fashion Eyes Nowadays Find See Horrible Horrible Things Only Horrors Had Emphasize Just Happening Them Us Round Things Last
If two individuals enter into a contract to commit trespass, theft, robbery or murder upon a third, the contract is unlawful and void, simply because it is a contract to violate natural justice, or men's natural rights. Lysander Spooner
Justice Rights Natural Men Unlawful Enter Void Simply Individuals Robbery Because Contract Commit Theft Natural Rights Violate Two Third
The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a natural right to overturn a government. Lysander Spooner
Government Legal Natural Revolution Tyrants Only Accord Overturn Mockery Legal Right Which Mankind Natural Right Right
If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is absolute, and the people, legally speaking, are slaves. Lysander Spooner
Government People Judge Those Laws Absolute Between Legally Jury Disobey Speaking Who Right Resist Slaves
It is with government paper, and bank paper, as it is with the paper of private persons; that is, it is worth just what can be delivered in redemption of it, and no more. We all understand that the notes of the Astors, and Stewarts, and Vanderbilts, though issued by millions, and tens of millions, are really worth their nominal values. Lysander Spooner
Government Worth Values Paper Though More Delivered Tens Tens Of Millions Nominal Redemption Understand Private Bank Just Notes Persons Really Millions
There can be no criminal intent in resisting injustice. Lysander Spooner
Injustice Criminal Intent Resisting
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