Quotes by Philosophers

We are made to know and love God. Nicolas Malebranche
Love God Made Know
The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception. Peter Singer
Politics Freedom People Internet Other Medium Relate Ways Respond Kinds Brought About Through Freedom Of Expression New Beyond Know Anonymity Learned How Permits Questions Goes New Ways Deception Them Far Should Each Expression Posing
A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music - these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Music Great Nature Beauty Expectation Sense Awareness Universe Seem Nostalgia Which Confronted Us Presence
The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out. Plato
Love God Impossible Imbalance State Hunger Out Almost Like Urge Stamp Lives Need Thirst
Today's policies and political activity treat people like pawns. More than ever before, attempts will be made to use people like cogs in a wheel. People will be handled like puppets on a string, and everyone will think that this reflects the greatest progress imaginable. Rudolf Steiner
Today People Treat Progress Political Will Made Before Think Everyone String Puppets More Attempts Like Policies Greatest Political Activity Reflects Than Handled Wheel Pawn Use Activity Ever Imaginable
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death. Socrates
Death People Own Philosophy Way Right Way Those Seem Directly Accord Dying Ordinary Ordinary People Realize Themselves Really Who Preparing Right Apply
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him. Soren Kierkegaard
Happiness Man Thinking Finally Lies Physical Outside Toward Inward Him Within Always His Source Discovers Being Happiness Lies Turned Turns Who
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God. Soren Kierkegaard
Life Love God Prayer Long Other Earthly Able Mystic He Blend Longs Souls Were Just Lovers Breathe Forth Whisper Moment Each Creep Soft
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself. Soren Kierkegaard
Love Alter Does Itself Beloved
Ours is a divine journey; therefore, this journey has neither a beginning nor an end... This journey has a goal, but it does not stop at any goal, for it has come to realise that today's goal is only the starting point of tomorrow's journey. Sri Chinmoy
Today Journey Tomorrow Beginning Ours Neither Only Point Divine Come Does Nor Goal End Any Stop Realise Therefore Starting Starting Point
The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim. Sun Tzu
Quality Decision Victim Strike Destroy Like Enables Well-Timed Falcon Which
Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory. Sun Tzu
War Battle Victory First Defeat Destined Has-Been Seeks Only He Thus Looks Been Won Whereas After Afterwards Victorious Fights Who Strategist
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. Thomas Carlyle
Business Our Distance Lies See Main Clearly Hand
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth. Zhuangzi
Life Earth Returns
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. Alan Watts
Future Made Living Valid Those Capacity Plans Who Now
Stupidity has a knack of getting its way. Albert Camus
Stupidity Way Knack Getting
In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist. Albert Camus
Man Respect Rebellion Meet Meeting Minds Must Limits Exist Discovers Itself Begin Where Order Rebel
No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people. Albert Camus
People Cause Matter Innocent Will Defends Innocent People Crowds Attacks Blind Permanent Disgrace Suffer
Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose. Baltasar Gracian
Man Anger Lose Nothing Never Contend Who
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them. Baruch Spinoza
Made Understand Ceaseless Scorn Effort Human Human Actions Them Actions Ridicule
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. Baruch Spinoza
Happiness Love Quality Solely Object Attached Depends Which Unhappiness
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. Bertrand Russell
Religion Science Intelligence Will Our Guidelines Adopt Something Fade Over Infancy Left Reason Away
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known. Blaise Pascal
Religion Must Divine Known Human Human Beings Loved Beings
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before. Blaise Pascal
Love Before Ourselves Seem Were Quite Different
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers. Charles Peguy
Truth Liars He Himself Knows Makes Does Accomplice Who
Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself! Confucius
Man Consider Pleasures Observe Simply Conceal Look Employs Himself His Motives Cannot Which Means
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