Quotes by Philosophers

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect. Friedrich Nietzsche

Before Does Causes Effect Than Different After Believes

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow. Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth Truth Is Thought Shallow Mystical Explanations Deep Even

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane. Friedrich Nietzsche

Good Humane Benefit Several Respects Good Reason General More General Good Could Suppose Instruction Gods Human Human Beings Us Reason Beings Humans

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets. Friedrich Nietzsche

Day Great Great Deal Hundred Pockets Put Deal

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation. Friedrich Nietzsche

Interpretation Fact Established Necessity

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. Friedrich Nietzsche

Love Out Giver Open Hand Close Modest Keep Hardest

The lie is a condition of life. Friedrich Nietzsche

Life Lie Condition

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it. Friedrich Nietzsche

Together Communicate Nothing Others Secrecy Lies Like Much Seal

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Life Soul Will Animals Possession Because Themselves Body Right

All that is real is reasonable, and all that is reasonable is real. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Real Reasonable

Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Great Events Pressure General Gives Principle Help

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals. George Berkeley

Man Animals Stupid Rather Had Most Than Senseless

Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine. George Gurdjieff

Change Struggle Progress Result Every Machine Habit Without Breaking Produces

In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him. George Gurdjieff

If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument. George Henry Lewes

You Yourself Speak Argument Above Feel Mass Height Your Raise

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art. George Henry Lewes

Truth Art Knowledge Guidance Our Books Minister Delight

A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal. George Herbert Mead

Personality Sense Normal Certain Multiple

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are. George Santayana

Intelligence Seeing Quickness Things

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily. George Santayana

Too Relinquished Chastity Like Readily Skepticism Should

The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it. George Santayana

Bible Wonderful Those Inspiration Understand Source Who