Quotes by Philosophers

I would like to express the thoughts of a man who, having finally penetrated the partitions and ceilings of little countries, little coteries, little sects, rises above all these categories and finds himself a child and citizen of the Earth. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Thoughts Man Citizen Earth Finally Would Finds Above Rises Having Countries Categories Like Himself Child Little Who Express
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments. Plato
Change Direction Excess Generally Individuals Reaction Causes Opposite Opposite Direction Governments Whether Produces Seasons
Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance. Plato
Life Health Attention Hindrance Greatest
Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns. Plato
Justice Business Men Own Meddling Other Minding Concerns Means
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life. Plato
Life Education Future Man Will Starts Determine Direction His Which
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. Plato
Knowledge Mind Compulsion Hold Which Acquired
It is right to give every man his due. Plato
Man Legal Every Give Due His Right Every Man
Like the practice of breath control, meditation on the forms of God, repetition of mantras, food restrictions, etc., are but aids for rendering the mind quiescent. Ramana Maharshi
God Food Mind Practice Control Breath Meditation AIDS Restrictions Like Rendering Repetition Etc Forms
Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind. Ramana Maharshi
You Mind Become Later Unlimited Perfect Take Put Limitations Which Originally Consciousness
The true teachers and educators are not those who have learned pedagogy as the science of dealing with children, but those in whom pedagogy has awakened through understanding the human being. Rudolf Steiner
Science Human Being Understanding Those Through True Learned Dealing Educators Human Being Children Teachers Who Awakened Whom
However true it may be that we have estranged ourselves from Nature, it is nonetheless true that we feel we are in her and belong to her. It can be only her own working which pulsates also in us. We must find the way back to her again. Rudolf Steiner
Nature Own Back Way Ourselves Must Find Only True Feel Also Nonetheless However May Which Again Us Working Her Belong
The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry. Simone Weil
Soul Lie Doubt Danger Hungry Itself Any Bread Whether Persuade Should Lest
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor. Soren Kierkegaard
Teacher You Paradox Take Away Professor Thinker
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference. Soren Kierkegaard
Strangers Lies Indifference Bottom Between Enmity
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite. Soren Kierkegaard
Man Everything Only Imperfection Through Attain Passing Opposite His Human Belongs Desire
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others. Sri Aurobindo
Religion Others Embraces Call Because Hindu Which Eternal Really
Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite. Sri Aurobindo
Religion Liberty Thought Men Approach Minds Unlimited Worship Must Indian Variety Perfect Individual Allowed Since Felt Always His Intellectual Infinite
He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces. Sun Tzu
Win Will Superior Both He Forces Knows How Handle Inferior Who
Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still. Thales
Hope Good Men Nothing Else Possess Those Only Still Common Who
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. Thomas Carlyle
Great History Man World Men Vain Great Man Great Men Man Lives The History Of Lives Biography
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight. Thomas Carlyle
Nothing Insight More Terrible Without Than Activity
I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it. Thomas Carlyle
Me People Echo Soon Like Talk Always Tires While Little Much Little While Who Agree Amusing
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle. Thomas Carlyle
War Fight Battle Cowardly Own Thieves Too Between Quarrel Two
Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights. Thomas Carlyle
Good Rights Own Others High Insists Rather Only Remembers Than Gracefully Breeding Good Breeding Differs
They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion. Thomas Hobbes
Approve More Call Opinion Private Than Dislike Heresy
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking. William James
Life Man Thinking Alter Altering His
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