Quotes by Philosophers

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness. F. H. Bradley

Happiness Secret Admire Without The Secret Of Desiring

There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth. F. H. Bradley

Truth Naked Indecent Those Find Something Dislike Who

Science is but an image of the truth. Francis Bacon

Truth Science Image

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires. Francis Bacon

God Wires Weights Smallest Greatest

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships. Francis Bacon

Solitude Worst Real Friendships

The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief. Francis Bacon

Religion Unknown Evils Constant About Rather Rites Divisions Because Quarrels Were Than Heathen Any Ceremonies Reason Belief

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. Francis Bacon

Change Better Worse Spontaneously Alter Altered Things

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self. Francis Bacon

Man Giveth Counsel Self Between Himself Friend Difference Flatterer Much

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears. Francis Bacon

Fears Parents Secret Joys Grieves

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. Francis Bacon

Wisdom Question Prudent

Freedom is the recognition of necessity. Friedrich Engels

Freedom Recognition Necessity

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal. Friedrich Engels

Crime State Criminal Some Laws More Even

Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence. Friedrich Engels

Judgment Before Everything Must Give Existence Up Justify Reason Seat

Art raises its head where creeds relax. Friedrich Nietzsche

Art Relax Head Where Creeds Raises

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer. Friedrich Nietzsche

Best Will Become Writer Author Ashamed Who

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn. Friedrich Nietzsche

Forgiveness Everything Pardon Something Also Condemn

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance. Friedrich Nietzsche

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths. Friedrich Nietzsche

Absolute Facts Truths Eternal

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad. Friedrich Nietzsche

Best Man Woman Evil Analysis Bad Best Man Even Last

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves. Friedrich Nietzsche

Open Because Hand Close Loves Hardest

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause. Friedrich Nietzsche

War Good You Cause Say Unto Any Good Cause Even