Quotes by Philosophers

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not. Isaiah Berlin
Wish About Only Come How Came Go Curious Going Where Whether Barbarians Appear Why Why Not
Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school. Jacques Derrida
Today Anxiety School Threshold Symptoms Physical Cross Never Institution Without Discomfort Still Chest Left Stomach Cannot Teaching
Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game. Jacques Ellul
Game Become Thinking Purely Superfluous More More Or Less Force Exercise Without Less Internal Compelling
A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things. Jacques Maritain
Man Courage New Things New Midst Forward Things
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
War Live State Virtue Ourselves Combat Always
The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best. Jean-Paul Sartre
Work Best You Difficult Best Work Most
If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically. Jean-Paul Sartre
Waiting Women Philosopher Seduce Became Sought Still Been Fame Which Basically
Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete. Jean-Paul Sartre
Evil Ability Abstract Make Concrete Which Product Humans
One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life. Jean-Paul Sartre
Life Death Become Still Cease Dies Going Lives
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes. Jean de la Bruyere
Man Master Aid Advancement His Ambitious Contribute May Persons Fortunes Many Whose Slave
The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education. Jean de la Bruyere
Education Society Individual Regeneration
The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth. Jean de la Bruyere
Truth Exact Generally Contrary Often Believed
A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Consistent Thoughtless Phrases He Because Repeats Person Pattern Groove Thinker Thinks
Have you ever asked yourselves what you are going to do when you grow up? In all likelihood you will get married, and before you know where you are, you will be mothers and fathers; and you will then be tied to a job, or to the kitchen, in which you will gradually wither away. Is that all that your life is going to be? Jiddu Krishnamurti
Life You Will Job Before Fathers Married Kitchen Know Likelihood Wither Tied Mothers Up Get Get Married Gradually Going Where Which Then Asked Your Grow Grow Up Away Ever
So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it. Jiddu Krishnamurti
You Words Listening Somebody Feeling Only Part Also Being Conveyed Then Whole
I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Truth Religion You Truth Is Path Approach Maintain Whatsoever Any Cannot Land
When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation - which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased - only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Positive Mind Thought Negation State Complete Possible Silent Totally Only Come Empty Opposite Nor Being Different Which Then
This is love: the flowering of love is meditation. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love Love Is Meditation Flowering
We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours. John Stuart Mill
Oppression Our Ways Ours Various Individuality Also Exercise Opinion His Anyone Act Right
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. John Stuart Mill
Minds One Thing Feel The One Thing Cannot Which Use Originality Thing
Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do. Jose Ortega y Gasset
Living Constant Going Deciding Process
The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future. Karl Marx
Future Country Own More Only Developed Industrially Less Shows Image
Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor. Karl Marx
Machines Weapon Employed Said Were Quell Labor Revolt May Capitalists Specialized
A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism. Karl Marx
Communism Haunting Europe Specter
I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today. Ken Wilber
Love Today Alone Will Shine Find Rise Dawn Taste
In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it. Lao Tzu
World Water Strong Nothing Weak More Attacking Surpass Submissive Than Which Hard
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