Quotes by Philosophers

Democracy passes into despotism. Plato
Government Democracy Despotism Passes
No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding. Plato
Law Understanding No Law Than Ordinance Mightier
When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation. Ramana Maharshi
Thoughts Meditation Distraction
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods. Socrates
Life Death Good Man Good Man Evil Neglected He His Gods Happen After Either
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me. Soren Kierkegaard
Me People Understanding Complaint About Understand Them Poorly Even
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings. Soren Kierkegaard
World Evil Backwards Beginning Back Bored Boredom No Wonder Advances Since Spreads Were Very Wonder Gods Goes Human Human Beings Then Root Created Therefore Beings
There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient. Swami Sivananda
Time Good You Patience Will Be Patient Patient See Seeming Something Something Good Failures Reveal Now
Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred. Swami Sivananda
Heart Hatred Somebody Immediately Never Like Child Forget Any Done Keep Injury
The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe. Alan Watts
God Natural Church Style Universe Synagogue Seems Mosque Different
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. Albert Camus
Rebellion Every Innocence Essence Being Nostalgia Act Appeal Expresses
At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things. Albert Camus
Man Exact Above He Failures Like Know Qualities Himself Accept How How Far Go His Hand Foretell Far Should Things Palm Defects Number
A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient. Annie Besant
Government Good People First Local Bad Administration Bad Government Case Prosper Inefficient Effective Very Suffer Second
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. Aristotle
Nature Passion Seven More Compulsion Habit Causes Human Human Actions Reason Actions Desire Chance
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own. Arthur Schopenhauer
Reading Own Thinking Else Someone Head Instead Equivalent
It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger. Arthur Schopenhauer
Life Truth Thoughts Man Own Clothes Meal Others Else Someone Only Remains He Taking Putting Like Discarded Read Understands Them Really Stranger Fundamental
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. Arthur Schopenhauer
Wealth Become More Drink True Like Fame Same
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them. Baruch Spinoza
Hate Laugh Weep Understand Nor Human Human Actions Them Actions
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. Bertrand Russell
Living Else Possessions More More Than Anything Prevents Nobly Freely Than Anything Anything Else Us Preoccupation
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame. Bertrand Russell
Democracy Man Blame People Get Process Which Choose
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. Bertrand Russell
Life Man Animal My Life Evidence All My Life Has-Been Rational Could Support Said Been Which Searching
Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair. Blaise Pascal
God Humble Pride Before Despair Approach Ourselves Without Whom Jesus
The cautious seldom err. Confucius
Seldom Cautious Err
If we don't know life, how can we know death? Confucius
Life Death Know How
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. Confucius
Alone Will Virtue Neighbors He Practices Left Stand Who
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. David Hume
Obey Other Ought Pretend Only Never Passions Than Office Any Them Reason Serve Slave
Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry. Democritus
Life Success Battle Worry Uncertain Only Reached Children After Success Is Thing Raising Raising Children
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