Quotes by Philosophers

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final. Hypatia

Final Must Religions Never Accepted Dogmatic Formal Persons

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable. Hypatia

Truth You Fight Truth Is Will Men Living Changeable More Fact Superstition Point Point Of View Since Intangible Quickly Get Quite Often In Fact Refute Cannot View

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness. Immanuel Kant

Essence Ingratitude

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them. Jean-Paul Sartre

Way Defined Victims Them Fascism Number

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death. Jiddu Krishnamurti

Death You Fear Losing Wife Job No Fear Husband Important Become Young Live Older Living Say Neighbours Would Environment Most Tradition Very Frightened Afraid Which While Us Really Grow

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples. Jiddu Krishnamurti

Religion Man Thought Build Out Temples Frozen Which

Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight. John Bradshaw

Ego Self True Spotlight True Self

To me faith means not worrying. John Dewey

Faith Me Worrying Means

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. John Locke

Knowledge Mind Reading Thinking Ours Only Read Makes Materials

Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values. Jose Ortega y Gasset

Values Hatred Feeling Leads Which Extinction

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass. Karl Marx

Time Man Worth Nothing Everything Say One-Man Rather He Hour Most Another Another Man Just Just As Much Much Should

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere. Lao Tzu

Words Fine Sincere

There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao. Lao Tzu

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength. Lao Tzu

Strength Courage Fear Discipline Weakness Perfect Simulated Disorder

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any. Lao Tzu

Myself Good Evil Spirits Concern Nor Gods Any Either Serve

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete. Lao Tzu

Good Benefits Others Way More Gives Never He Himself Sage Does Gets Hoard Heaven Act Helps Compete Harm

For a truly religious man nothing is tragic. Ludwig Wittgenstein

Man Nothing Religious Religious Man Truly Tragic