Quotes by Philosophers

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting. Epictetus

You Strikes He Insulting Insults Opinion Your Who Things

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire. Epictetus

Freedom Controlling Procured Full Enjoyment Desire Desired

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying. Francis Bacon

Lost Between Trying Which Succeeding Comparison

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. Friedrich Nietzsche

Religion Reality Christianity Neither Morality Point Contact Come Nor Any

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too. Friedrich Nietzsche

Heart Control Too Ought Head Soon Go Loses Hold Lets

Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders? Friedrich Nietzsche

God Man Blunders

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it. Heraclitus

Ignorance Hide Will Wine Our Soon Reveals Evening

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. Hypatia

Better Think Wrongly Than Your Even Reserve Right

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal. Jean-Paul Sartre

Life You Illusion Lose Being Eternal Meaning Moment

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it. Jiddu Krishnamurti

We are domesticated animals, revolving in a cage which we have built for ourselves - with its contentions, wranglings, its impossible political leaders, its gurus who exploit our self-conceit and their own with great refinement or rather crudely. Jiddu Krishnamurti

Great Political Impossible Animals Own Our Ourselves Rather Cage Leaders Built Refinement Political Leaders Domesticated Revolving Which Exploit Who

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear. Jiddu Krishnamurti

Fear Constant Indication Belief Assertion

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property. John Locke

Property Men Society Enter Reason Why Preservation

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues. John Locke

Guard Other Virtues Support Fortitude

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. John Stuart Mill

Happiness Seek Rather Attempting Learned Limiting Than Them Satisfy Desires

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. Jose Ortega y Gasset

Life Death Negation Worse Existence Itself Unemployed Than

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. Karl Marx

Needs Society Ability Horizon Only Higher Bourgeois Narrow His Left According Behind Banner Then Communist Fully Each Right Phase

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society. Karl Marx

Animal Human Being Political Sense Society Only Merely Most Political Animal Itself Human Gregarious Being Literal Which Midst

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude. Karl Popper

Attitude Man Will Argument Adopt Rational Does Effect Want Who

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite. Karl Popper

Knowledge Ignorance Our Must Only Finite Infinite While Necessarily