Quotes by Philosophers

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication. George Santayana

Man Simplicity Foe Spirit Sophistication Been

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on. George Santayana

Live Society Air Like Insufficient Breathe Necessary

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. George Santayana

Confusion Chaos Our Minds Name Any Order Produces

Oaths are the fossils of piety. George Santayana

Oaths Piety Fossils

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. George Santayana

Education Great Experience Difficulty Out Ideas Get

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty. George Santayana

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. George Santayana

Death Enjoy Interval Birth Cure Save

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them. George Santayana

Experience Draw Seems Lead Never Most Conclusions Them Us Sworn

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato. George Santayana

Thought Naught Plato

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism. George Santayana

Time Evil Ruins Total Absolutely Existence Optimism Any Anywhere

There is one simple Divinity found in all things, one fecund Nature, preserving mother of the universe insofar as she diversely communicates herself, casts her light into diverse subjects, and assumes various names. Giordano Bruno

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind. Giordano Bruno

Truth Time Mother Father Mind Our

It is proper that noble spirits, equipped with truth and enlightened with the Divine intelligence, should arm themselves against dense ignorance by climbing up to the high rock and tower of contemplation. Giordano Bruno

The thought of security bears within it an essential risk. A state which has security as its sole task and source of legitimacy is a fragile organism; it can always be provoked by terrorism to become more terroristic. Giorgio Agamben

Terrorism Thought Become State Sole Security Risk More Bears Within Always Source Provoked Task Essential Legitimacy Which Organism Fragile

The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God. Gottfried Leibniz

God Lie Changes Must Only Call Ultimate Source Exists Substance Which Reason Differentiation Things Necessary

It can have its effect only through the intervention of God, inasmuch as in the ideas of God a monad rightly demands that God, in regulating the rest from the beginning of things, should have regard to itself. Gottfried Leibniz

God Rest Beginning Intervention Rightly Only Through Demands Ideas Effect Itself Regard Inasmuch Should Monad Things

Robots will harvest, cook, and serve our food. They will work in our factories, drive our cars, and walk our dogs. Like it or not, the age of work is coming to an end. Gray Scott

Work Food Age Walk Car Will Drive Our Harvest Factories Like Robots Dogs Coming End Cook Serve

We're going to become caretakers for the robots. That's what the next generation of work is going to be. Gray Scott

Work Generation Become Caretakers Robots Going Next Next Generation

Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets. Guru Nanak

Mind Fly Eats Shallow Through Along Becomes Intellect Sweets

Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form. Guru Nanak

Eyes Thou Eye Thousand Host Form Forms