Quotes by Philosophers

There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself. Plato

Best Man Victory First Defeat Worst Himself Another Hands Sustains Which Gains Victories Lowest Each Each Man Defeats

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles. Plato

Will Poverty Community Neither Noblest Principles Always Nor Which Riches

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts. Plotinus

Beasts Poised Between Gods Midway Mankind

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions. Plutarch

Knowledge Power Possessions Would Rather Excel Excellent Than Extent

Doubts never end. If one doubt is removed, another takes its place. It is like removing the leaves of a tree one by one. Even if all the leaves are clipped off, new ones grow. The tree itself must be uprooted. Ramana Maharshi

Doubt Tree Must Never Takes New Like Removing Another Leaves New Ones Off End Itself Uprooted Place Doubts Even Grow

God has no resolve; no karma attaches itself to Him. Ramana Maharshi

God Karma Resolve Him Itself

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. Roger Bacon

Mathematics Knowledge World Made Known Without Cannot Things

We must never forget that higher knowledge has to do with revering truth and insight and not with revering people. Rudolf Steiner

Truth Knowledge People Must Insight Higher Never Never Forget Forget

If I meet other people and criticize their weaknesses, I rob myself of higher cognitive power. But if I try to enter deeply and lovingly into another person's good qualities, I gather in that force. Rudolf Steiner

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence. Socrates

Fear Everywhere Presumably Because Reverence Than Where Extension Wider

Purity of heart is to will one thing. Soren Kierkegaard

Heart Will One Thing Purity Thing

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. Soren Kierkegaard

Good Evil Rather Only True Idleness Being Far Root

Metaphysical thinking will always no doubt be a strong element in her mentality, and it is to be hoped that she will never lose her great, her sovereign powers in that direction. Sri Aurobindo

Great Strong Will Lose Doubt Thinking Hoped No Doubt Direction Mentality Never Powers She Always Metaphysical Sovereign Element Her

The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution. Sun Tzu

Good Ruler General Caution Full Enlightened

Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations. Sun Tzu

Army Matters Liberal Relating Secret Secret Agent Intimate Those Given More Operations None Commander Close Than Confidential Rewards Agent Agents

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist. Thomas Carlyle

You Parrot Supply Demand Economist Terms Got Teach

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. Thomas Carlyle

Man Repentance Faults Divine Most Greatest None Acts Conscious