Quotes by Philosophers

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom. Francis Bacon
Friendship Increases Visiting Seldom Friends Them
Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread. Francis Bacon
Money Except Like Spread Very Little Use Manure
All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development. Friedrich Engels
History Class Has-Been Classes Various Struggles Development Between Been Dominated Stages Social Social Development
Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm. Friedrich Nietzsche
Great Grateful Charity Men Worm Vengeful Make Does Gnawing Forgotten Little Turns
One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive. Friedrich Nietzsche
Pay Several Alive Immortality Still Dearly Times Die While
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves? Friedrich Nietzsche
Life Care Become Too Monster Monsters Hundred Hundred Times Ourselves Bore Take Take Care He Times Short Might Us Fights Who Thereby Lest
To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality. Friedrich Nietzsche
Immorality Morality Step Also End Ashamed Staircase Whose
In music the passions enjoy themselves. Friedrich Nietzsche
Music Enjoy Passions Themselves
All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values. Friedrich Nietzsche
Future Obligation Problem Value Values Philosopher Hierarchy Solve Determine True Sciences Task Which Ground Prepare Now
'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs? Friedrich Nietzsche
Evil Men Russians Songs How
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it. Friedrich Nietzsche
Art Quality Strong Possess Striving Admiration Us
It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around. Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth Good Walk Will Able Give Outset Foot Also Around Surely Left Leg Get Stand Express Twice Right Thing Two
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad. Friedrich Nietzsche
World Ugly Made Christian Bad Find Resolution
He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted. Friedrich Nietzsche
Exalted He Wishes Himself
Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
You Thought Men Nothing Action Mark Unconscious Well Instruments Proud After
It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour. George Gurdjieff
Man Mistake Long Half Think Changing Remains Seldom Never He Hour Greatest Always Continually Same Even
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. George Gurdjieff
Knowledge Man Will Free Understanding Machine Remain Self He Himself Without Always Self-Knowledge Govern His Cannot Working Functions Slave
The only cure for grief is action. George Henry Lewes
Grief Action Sympathy Only Cure
The wisest mind has something yet to learn. George Santayana
Mind Something Wisest Learn
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. George Santayana
Friendship Part Friends Human Which Race Human Race
Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting. Gottfried Leibniz
Music Mind Pleasure Counting Without Human Being Experiences Human Mind Aware
There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible. Gottfried Leibniz
Truth Impossible Those Possible Kinds Fact Also Contingent Opposite Truths Reasoning Necessary Two
I bow at His Feet constantly, and pray to Him, the Guru, the True Guru, has shown me the Way. Guru Nanak
Me Way Constantly Guru True Feet Bow Him Pray His Shown
Only fools argue whether to eat meat or not. They don't understand truth, nor do they meditate on it. Who can define what is meat and what is plant? Who knows where the sin lies, being a vegetarian or a non-vegetarian? Guru Nanak
Truth Plant Fools Define Lies Eat Only Argue Vegetarian Sin Knows Understand Nor Being Where Whether Who Meat Meditate
There are worlds and more worlds below them, and there are a hundred thousand skies over them. No one has been able to find the limits and boundaries of God. If there be any account of God, then alone the mortal can write the same; but God's account does not finish, and the mortal himself dies while still writing. Guru Nanak
God Alone Writing Worlds Hundred Has-Been Thousand Find Able Finish More Write No-One Mortal Boundaries Over Himself Does Limits Still Been Account Same Any Dies While Them Skies Then Below
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven. Henri Frederic Amiel
Music Harmony Our Dream Perfection Heaven
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