Quotes by Philosophers

Depression is rage spread thin. George Santayana

Depression Rage Spread Thin

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be. George Santayana

World Pretending Every Caricature Perpetual Itself Contradiction Mockery Moment

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men. George Santayana

Best People Men Virtuous Friends Low

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say. George Santayana

People Pay Think Say Rather Know Than Regard Really They Say

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations. Herbert Spencer

Life Relations Adjustment Continuous Internal External

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. Herbert Spencer

World Result Men Fools Folly Ultimate Effects Fill

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs. Isaiah Berlin

Death Liberty Wolves Lambs

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Heroes Cowards Carriage Generally Known Greatest

Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness. Jean Vanier

Own Our Weakness Accept Begin Begins Growth

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts. Jean Vanier

Ignorance People Envy Own Gifts Lack Belief

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. Jeremy Bentham

Ignorance Legal Law Punished Only Lawyers Persons Whom

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration. Jiddu Krishnamurti

Relationship Frustration Fear Economic Results Most Another Friction Dependence Suspicion Psychological Either Us Creates Breeds Based

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem. Jiddu Krishnamurti

Freedom Problem Understanding Freedom From Answer Essential Desire

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant. John Stuart Mill

Good Will Power Own Community Others Rightfully Member Moral Physical Only Prevent Purpose Civilized Over His Any Either Which Against Warrant Sufficient Harm

All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions. John Stuart Mill

Political Moral Previous Merely Institutions Opinions Foreign Affected Revolutions Established Subversion Originate Conquest Consequence

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. John Stuart Mill

Politics Fight Better Safety Made Men Free Miserable Important Own Nothing Unless Willing No Chance More He Himself His Than Person Personal Being Which Who Creature Chance Kept

Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed. Judith Butler

Constructed Masculine Feminine Fixed Roles Socially Biologically

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser. Karl Marx

Gone Mad Rational Miser Merely While Capitalist

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. Karl Marx

Art Time Confession Secret Everywhere Immortal Always Same Same Time Movement

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state. Karl Marx

Men State Direct Ideas Most Material

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small. Lao Tzu

Great Great Things Difficult Easy Small Which Origin Things Difficult Things