Quotes by Philosophers

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness. Arthur Schopenhauer
Happiness Health Sacrifice Other Kind Follies Greatest Any
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies. Arthur Schopenhauer
Nature Women Enemies Men Indifferent Merely Another Women Are
To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them. Arthur Schopenhauer
Buy Time Good Books Would Would-Be Could Good Thing Also Read Them Thing
Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave. Baltasar Gracian
You People Matters Favorable Missed Leave Arrive Tragic Very Beginnings Endings Often Common Being Fortunate Applauded
It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it. Baltasar Gracian
Great Waiting Luck Guide Know Piece How While Skill Your Even
Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons. Bernard Williams
Life Secret Valleys Supposed Becoming Grand Canyon Series Keep Peaks
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. Bertrand Russell
Education Freedom Intelligence Thought Become Paradoxical Faced Fact Obstacles Chief
Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true. Bertrand Russell
Saying Mathematics Defined About Never True Know Talking Nor Subject May Whether Which
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. Bertrand Russell
Happiness Today People World Paradise Few Own Others More Could Were Years Than Any Unhappiness Who Large Large Number Desired Number
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves. Bertrand Russell
People Criticism Fury Because Departure Convention Conventional Regard Themselves Largely
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. Bertrand Russell
Good Man Animal Will Believe Satisfied Bad Must Something Absence Bad Ones He Grounds Belief Credulous
Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance. Bertrand Russell
Knowledge Ignorance Sense Not Knowing Other Dissipate Philosophies Philosophy Both Absolute Knowing Dogmatism Whether Skepticism Certain Should Certainty
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. Bertrand Russell
Intelligence Remember Word One Word Gospels Praise Far
Drunkenness is temporary suicide. Bertrand Russell
Suicide Temporary Drunkenness
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. Bertrand Russell
Happiness Time Nature Made Every Every Time Possibility Feel Longer Talk Sure Odd Opposite Discovery Quite Convinced Gardener
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back. Blaise Pascal
Few Back Says Would Knew Him His Friend Friendships Survive Behind Each Each One
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason. Blaise Pascal
God Faith Heart Perceived Which Reason
If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy. Blaise Pascal
Happy Our Ourselves Would Seek Diversion Make Were Condition Truly Order
Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it. Claude Adrien Helvetius
Truth Truth Is Fog Torch Through Gleam Without
He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against. Confucius
Will Own Constant He Advantage His Against Much View Who Acts
Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love. Dallas Willard
Love Believe Think Worship Defined Claim Rather Primarily Bound Know Up Than Human Human Beings Central Beings Core
The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it. Daniel Dennett
Happiness Life You Important Secret Find Something More Than The Secret Of Your Dedicate
The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster. David Hume
Life Man Universe Importance Greater Greater Importance Than
Truth springs from argument amongst friends. David Hume
Truth Argument Springs Friends Amongst
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. David Hume
Patriotism Tyranny Power Heights Beaten Road Still Popularity
The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason. David Hume
Our Rules Morality Conclusion Reason
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