Quotes by Philosophers

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness. Mencius

Kindness Words Men Reputation Enter Kindly Deeply

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice. Michael Novak

Happiness Love Love Is Sacrifice Feeling Willingness

Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it. Michael Novak

By aiming for paradise, we lose sight of earth. Hope of a beyond and aspiration to an afterlife engender a sense of futility in the present. If the prospect of getting taken up to paradise generates joy, it is the mindless joy of a baby picked up from his crib. Michel Onfray

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience. Michel de Montaigne

Honor Lose Rather His Than Person Any Chooses Conscience

The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things. Michel de Montaigne

Beautiful All Things Open Ready Souls Things Universal

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication. Michel de Montaigne

Me Communication Savor Pleasure Without Any

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum. Michel de Montaigne

Education Good Book Our Bit Table Part True True Education Talk Boy Prank Hand Curriculum Blunder Anything Page Servant

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face. Michel de Montaigne

Age Mind Face Wrinkles More Does Than

The world is but a perpetual see-saw. Michel de Montaigne

World Perpetual

My trade and art is to live. Michel de Montaigne

Life Art Live Trade

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre. Michel de Montaigne

Lie Men Betray Massacre Public Should Requires

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom. Michel de Montaigne

Family Trouble Kingdom Governing Private Than Little Less Whole

The thing I fear most is fear. Michel de Montaigne

Fear Most Thing

The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness. Michel de Montaigne

Those Finest Variety Most Souls

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws. Montesquieu

Weaken Laws Useless Necessary

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy. Montesquieu

Politics Democracy People Power Possessed Supreme Supreme Power Body

We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty. Montesquieu

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight. Montesquieu

Love Delight Exchange Hours Read To Love Ennui

Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability. Morris Raphael Cohen

Life Good Achievement Risks Progress Will Other Liberalism Must No Guarantee Rather Take True Adventure New Always Inevitability Hand Precarious Than Situations Regards Which Guarantee

I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way. Mortimer Adler

Love Man Woman Other Way Find Sexual Rather More Liking Than Person Intelligible Interest Much Choice Origin

We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also. Mortimer Adler

Once a discovery has been published, there is no way of un-publishing it. Nick Bostrom

Once Way Has-Been Been Discovery Published