Quotes by Philosophers

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. William James
Nature Power Crushed Human Nature Alcohol Cold Earth Criticisms Unquestionably Mystical Facts Faculties Over Hour Dry Due Stimulate Human Sober Sway Mankind
Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. William James
Together Will Feeling Control Action Follow Direct Seems More Indirectly Go Which Really Regulate
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. William James
Mind Attitudes Alter Altering Human Human Beings Beings Lives
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice. William James
Day Practice Everybody Hates He Least Just Should Each Each Day Things Two
Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. Zhuangzi
You Mind Free Whatever Stay Accepting Doing Ultimate May Happen Centered Your Flow
Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it. Zhuangzi
Knowledge Honor Men Sphere Lies Beyond Within How Dependent Realize
I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place. Xun Kuang
Distance Once Out High Tried See Could Climbing Up Place Far Much Toes Standing Farther Standing Up Found
In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way. Alan Watts
History People Gone Aggressive Universe Way States About Had Nobody Altering Known Than America Capacity United United States United States Of America
But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is. Alan Watts
God Everybody Admit Rate Point Nobody Any Being Really
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. Alan Watts
Technology People Universe Destructive Only Hands Same Process Realize Who
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door. Albert Camus
Great Thoughts Beginning Corner Restaurant Born Revolving Often Door Deeds Works Ridiculous Street Street Corner
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. Albert Camus
Time Beauty Despair Out Unbearable Minute Drives Over Glimpse Like Offering Eternity Us Should Whole Stretch
It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting. Albert Camus
Painting Like Your Paintings
Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road. Albert Camus
Truth Truth Is Dangerous Liberty Goals Long Live Our Elusive Must Mysterious Advance Road Toward Failings Always Certain Hard Painfully Conquered March Two Resolutely
There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds. Albert Camus
Me Anarchy Thousand Would Entire Winds Scattered Because Without Makes Making Deaths Frightful Die Being Order Against Creating Means Disorder Rebels
The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge. Albert Camus
Judge Beauty Nothing Community Others Rather Obliged He True Between Himself Without Understand Scorn Than Artist Artists Cannot Midway Tear Why Away
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. Albert Camus
Work Art Great Man Heart Simple Slow Three First Nothing Trek Those Detours Through Opened Rediscover His Whose Presence Images Two
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them. Anacharsis
Will Rich Weak Easily Spiders Web Laws Only Through Written Powerful Like Hold Break While Them Poor
A man must fortify himself and understand that a wise man who yields to laziness or anger or passion or love of drink, or who commits any other action prompted by impulse and inopportune, will probably find his fault condoned; but if he stoops to greed, he will not be pardoned, but render himself odious as a combination of all vices at once. Apollonius of Tyana
Love Wise Man Anger Wise Man Fault Passion Will Laziness Greed Action Other Once Must Find Prompted Pardoned Drink He Combination Render Himself Understand His Odious Yields Any Impulse Vices Fortify Who
The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects - things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language - either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors. Aristotle
Words Language Thought Rare Three Poet Other Imitate Ought Must Objects Vehicle Like Terms Said Metaphors Were Current Any Artist May Being Either Painter Expression Things Necessity
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live. Aristotle
Life Great Wise Man Wise Man Few Live Cares Danger Crises Willing Worthwhile Give He Since Knowing Himself Does His Conditions Few Things Which Certain Expose Even Sufficiently Things
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. Aristotle
Truth Truth Is Later Deviation Least Initial
A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so. Aristotle
Other Statement Statements Directly Self-Evident Because Proved Either Persuasive Appears Credible
Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company. Arthur Schopenhauer
Character Man Others Pleasure Sign Rascals More He Nobility Takes Always His Chief Any Pity Little Sociable Company
Music is the melody whose text is the world. Arthur Schopenhauer
Music World Melody Text Whose
Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes. Arthur Schopenhauer
Thoughts Eyes Face Wicked Mark Worthless Efforts Gradually Set
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