Quotes by Philosophers

God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things. Baruch Spinoza

God Cause All Things Transient Things

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf. Baruch Spinoza

Music Time Good Same Thing Melancholy Those Bad Neither Indifferent Deaf Nor Mourn Same Same Time Who Thing

I call him free who is led solely by reason. Baruch Spinoza

Free Solely Call Him Led Reason Who

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it. Baruch Spinoza

Man Impossible Long Determined He Him Cannot Should Consequently

I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy. Bernard Williams

Word Laziness Seem Classy Indolence Like Makes

Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair. Bernard Williams

Women Men Favorite Room Chair

There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from. Bernard de Mandeville

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. Bertrand Russell

Happiness People Disguise Hatred Other Contempt Human Race Human Race Elegant

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death. Blaise Pascal

Death Nature Rest Complete Our Consists Motion

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. Blaise Pascal

Sail Sphere Drifting Uncertainty Vast Driven Within End Ever

The gospel to me is simply irresistible. Blaise Pascal

Me Simply Gospel Irresistible

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. Blaise Pascal

Religion Hate Men Be True Despise True May Afraid

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world. Blaise Pascal

Life World Hell Only Between Heaven Which Us Thing

Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so. Boethius

You Miserable Nothing Think Unless

It's clear to me that anyone, anywhere, can experience loneliness, isolation, solitude, and estrangement; and most people probably do encounter these things at some point in their lives. Brendan Myers

Loneliness Me Experience Solitude People Isolation Some Point Clear Most Encounter Anyone Anywhere Lives Things

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress. Charles Fourier

Rights Women Equality Progress Principle Social Social Progress Basic Extension

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy. Claude Adrien Helvetius

Art Enemy Fear Discipline Soldiers More Simply Making Than Officers

To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive. David Hume

Love Hate Nothing Think See Perceive Feel To Love

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous. David Hume

Religion Dangerous Philosophy Those Only Generally Errors Speaking Ridiculous

Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived. David Hume

Natural Beauty Moral Perceived Properly More Felt Than Whether

No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish. David Hume

Unless Kind Would Would-Be Miracle Miraculous More Fact Testimony Falsehood Than Endeavors Establish Which Sufficient

There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence. Deepak Chopra

Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone. Deepak Chopra

Success Alone Failure Together People Tends Happen Act