Quotes by Philosophers

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark. Henri Frederic Amiel
Man Passion Before Latent Possibility Give Mere Like Force Without Shock Iron Which Forth Spark Flint Awaits
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. Henri Frederic Amiel
Work You Light Has-Been Responsible Entrusted Talent Been While
Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire. Heraclitus
Fire Deliberate More Quenched Than Violence
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom. Herbert Spencer
Freedom Strongest Least Human Where Regard Human Freedom
When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion. Herbert Spencer
Knowledge Man Confusion Will More He Greater His Order
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit. Herbert Spencer
Music Other Rank Must Ministers Fine Fine Arts Spirit More Take Highest Than Any Human Arts Which Human Spirit
Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility. Hu Shih
Truth Responsibility Sense Ourselves Only Unchanging Absolute Absolute Truth Arouse Intellectual Eternal Realize
What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty. Hu Shih
Great Strange People Beauty Become Group Cornerstone Despised Sacred Environment Another Edifice Cultural May Different Grandeur Ridiculous Among Rejected
Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. Immanuel Kant
World Law Made Action Principle Safely Might Act Your Whole
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy. Immanuel Kant
Happiness God Be Happy Happy Will Ourselves Merely Make Should
Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved. Immanuel Kant
Man Made Nothing Out Carved Crooked Entirely Timber Which Straight
Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions. Isaiah Berlin
Childish Philosophers Adult Questions Persist Asking Who
Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. Jacques Ellul
Technology Become Defining Total Civilization Longer New Force Imposed Efficiency Option Modern Human Human Activity Order Modern Technology Which Social Social Order Activity Necessity Phenomenon
The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief. Jacques Ellul
Active Propaganda Mythical Longer Arouse Opinion Goal Modern Transform Belief
Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Religious Rascals Believers
Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Thankful Gratitude Duty Ought None Expect Which Paid Right
We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly. Jean de la Bruyere
Speak Dangerous Power Cowardly Those Alive Silent About Almost Implies Dead Well While Flattery Them Should Ill Keep
As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends. Jeremy Bentham
Impossible Censorship Evil Tell Results Ends Where Which Measure
Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet. Jeremy Bentham
Man Stars Stretching Too Feet Reach His Hand Up Forgets Often Flowers
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. Jeremy Bentham
Happiness Morals Greatest Greatest Happiness Greatest Number Legislation Foundation Number
Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart. Jeremy Bentham
Tyranny Anarchy Never Apart Far
It is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and the owl that hoots among the hills calling for its mate. We never seem to have a feeling for all living things on the earth. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Nature Relationship Insects Feeling Living Earth Seem Never Hills Leaping Calling Mate Odd Owl Frog Little Among Things
To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Freedom You Yourself Revolution Live Out Find Only True Inwardly Within Continuous
Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one's own desires through which one listens. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Listening Own Projecting Only Through Importance Listens Which Desires
Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning. John Dewey
Happiness Life Experience Endeavor Own Changing Our Participation Powers Situations Capable Meaning Full Unique Each
As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears. John Locke
Inspirational Time People Path Spot Walking Same Appears
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