Quotes by Philosophers

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune. Arthur Schopenhauer

Money Surest Passport Friends Acquaintances Fortune

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong. Baltasar Gracian

You Anger Will Everything Temper Never Wrong Anything

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause. Baltasar Gracian

Jealousy Win Once Envied Envious Die Oft Applause

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self. Baruch Spinoza

Ignorance Pride Despondency Self Greatest

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many. Baruch Spinoza

You Be True Astonished True New Ideas Well Well Known Known Because Accepted Does New Ideas Cease Many Therefore Thing

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. Baruch Spinoza

Wisdom Hope Fear Without Nor Cannot

People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it. Bernard de Mandeville

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. Bertrand Russell

Mathematics Man Sense Exaltation Spirit Touchstone More Poetry Excellence Delight Highest True Surely True Spirit Than Being Which Found

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it. Bertrand Russell

Judgment Fact Hallucination Error Based

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. Bertrand Russell

Fear Every Once Eccentric Accepted Opinion Now

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. Bertrand Russell

You Long Healthy Mark Taken Taken For Granted Healthy Thing Affairs Question Question Mark Hang Then Granted Now Now And Then Thing Things

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. Bertrand Russell

People Think Would Fact Sooner Most Than Die In Fact

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile. Bertrand Russell

Happiness You Secret Possible Rather Hostile Reactions Friendly Than As Far As The Secret Of Interest Far Persons Interests Your Wide Things

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. Bertrand Russell

Problem Fear Half Boredom Vital Moralist Since Caused Sins Mankind

Little things console us because little things afflict us. Blaise Pascal

Little Things Console Because Afflict Little Us Things

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness. Blaise Pascal

Madness Men Mad Would Another Form Amount Necessarily

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. Blaise Pascal

Man Evil Sit Unable Still Discovered Human Being Room

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short. Confucius

Fall Wrong Beyond Go Short

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire. Confucius

People Revenge Inspire Submit Virtuous Boredom Constraints Often Which Themselves