Quotes by Philosophers

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him. Aristotle
Time Angry You Respect People Fear Long Also Him Person Same Same Time Afraid Cannot Them
Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves. Aristotle
Friendship Good Men Wish Other Alike Excellence Perfect Well Themselves Who Each
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. Aristotle
Wisdom Justice Virtue Consists Moderation
The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. Aristotle
Life Good State Good Life Sake Exist Existence
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. Aristotle
Quality Men Way Constantly Particular Particular Way Acquire Acting
The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities. Aristotle
Truth Good Man Truth Is Natural Men Guess Approximately Faculty True Instinct Likely Also Make Makes Arrive Same Probabilities May Noted Who Hence Sufficient
We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time. Aristotle
Time Angry Man Right Moment Feels Also Praise Against Length Persons Manner Moment Who Grounds Right
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. Aristotle
Life Rest Every Vain Thou Though Find Wilt Thy Were Fancy Act Last
Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence. Aristotle
Fear Men More Reverence Than Swayed
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. Aristotle
Art Other Telling Telling Lies Lies Poets Taught Homer
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other. Arthur Schopenhauer
Situation Depend Other Side Boredom Inside Rather Both Outside Leads Reverse Than Just Being Fascination
The word of man is the most durable of all material. Arthur Schopenhauer
Man Word Most Material Durable
To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away. Arthur Schopenhauer
Free Give Take Error Person Away
Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health. Avicenna
Health Sickness Medicine Ought Know Causes Therefore
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar Gracian
Great Every Increasingly Ability Develops New Reveals Itself Assignment
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching. Baltasar Gracian
Teacher Sometimes Joke Advice More Through Than Transmitted Successfully Teaching Grave
Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it. Baltasar Gracian
Evil Other Invariably Never Open Greater Door After Lesser
Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets. Baltasar Gracian
Seem Most Judged Pass Jackets Things
Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check. Baltasar Gracian
Hope Good Great Judgment Good Judgment Check Keep Her
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue. Baruch Spinoza
First Endeavor Virtue Only Understand Basis
We feel and know that we are eternal. Baruch Spinoza
Feel Know Eternal
Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts. Baruch Spinoza
Freedom Science Progress Liberal Liberal Arts Absolutely Arts Necessary
No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them. Bernard de Mandeville
Quality World Passion Hypocrisy Every Our Easily Seeds More Habit Sooner Nobody Principle Learned Without Nor Deny Than Hearts Any Them Acquired Us Sentiments Act Thing Innate
Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free. Bertrand Russell
Great Thought Free Destructive Habit Merciless Institutions Terrible Comfortable Privilege Revolutionary Established Subversive Swift
Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction. Bertrand Russell
Love Destruction Made Our Religions Insight Brotherly Mass Mass Destruction Excuse Scientific Been Persecution Means Teach Used Profoundest
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. Bertrand Russell
Happiness Hope Needs Man Change Enterprise Only His Man Needs Enjoyment
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