Quotes by Philosophers

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles! Blaise Pascal
Religion Ought Battles Must Uncertainty How Certain Act Sea Certainty Many Things Save
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all. Blaise Pascal
Death Ignorance Be Happy Happy Fight Men Think Able Misery Taken Heads Order Against Them
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants. Blaise Pascal
Good Free Too Everything Wants
We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it. Blaise Pascal
Love Man Feeling Matters Live Vain Secretly Those Ourselves Possibly Must Seemingly Something Conceal Without Always Cannot Moment Found
Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them. Blaise Pascal
Faith Tells See Above Contrary Senses Against Them Us Certainly
Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them. Blaise Pascal
Faith Indeed Tell Tells See Above Contrary Senses Them
We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured. Blaise Pascal
Faith Doctors Matters Security Moral Moral Questions Feel Like Infallible Questions Pope Reassured Grave
Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools. Blaise Pascal
Fools Master Other More Commands Than Unfortunate Far Us Reason
Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else. Blaise Pascal
Time Nature Soul Nothing Believe Else Our Dimension Finds Cast Calls Where Body Reasons Necessity Number
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior. Boethius
Music Behavior Our Part Either Us
Our world is utterly saturated with fear. We fear being attacked by religious extremists, both foreign and domestic. We fear the loss of political rights, a loss of privacy, or a loss of freedom. We fear being injured, robbed or attacked, being judged by others, or neglected, or left unloved. Brendan Myers
Freedom Privacy Rights World Fear Political Others Our Neglected Unloved Extremists Our World Religious Both Attacked Robbed Judged Foreign Loss Domestic Left Political Rights Being Being Judged Injured Saturated Utterly
There is nothing natural, inevitable, or necessary about the labyrinth of fear. We can liberate ourselves. There are better ways to live. Someone has to take the initiative to love and trust her fellow living creature and set us all free. Brendan Myers
Love Trust Natural Fear Better Liberate Free Inevitable Nothing Live Living Ways Ourselves About Someone Take Better Ways Fellow Labyrinth To Love Us Initiative Creature Her Necessary Set
At the risk of sounding like a spoilsport, I'd say that pagans have about the same experience of otherness and isolation as anyone else. We're not special in that regard. But this is because the problem of loneliness is almost universal - and that, to my mind, makes it much more serious. Brendan Myers
Loneliness Experience Problem Mind Isolation Else Say About Risk More Almost Like Because Makes Same Anyone Anyone Else Regard Much Special Serious Universal
Complex astronomical instruments like the Antikythera Mechanism and the Nebra Sky Disk were made by Pagans. Our Pagan intellectual heritage includes poets and scientists and literary intellectuals of every kind, especially including those who wrote some of the most important and influential books in all of Western history. Brendan Myers
History Sky Made Important Every Heritage Our Books Complex Those Astronomical Kind Some Poets Like Most Wrote Instruments Scientists Were Intellectual Western Intellectuals The Most Important Influential Literary Disk Pagan Who Mechanism Including
I do not bow. I do not obey. I do not 'worship.' Brendan Myers
Obey Worship Bow
The point of a philosophical spirit is to rely primarily upon one's own thinking. Brendan Myers
Own Thinking Philosophical Spirit Rely Point Primarily
The philosophical spirit is not satisfied to simply accept what it is told, no matter how much prestige the teller seems to have. This is true even if the teller is a god. Brendan Myers
God Matter Satisfied Philosophical Prestige Teller Spirit Seems Simply True Accept How How Much Much Even
No one is served or benefitted by believing in false or faulty ideas. Brendan Myers
Faulty No-One Ideas False Believing Served
What matters is being a particular kind of person. At the most basic level, it matters that you are the kind of person who resolves problems with force of thought and feeling instead of with the force of arms. Brendan Myers
You Problems Thought Feeling Matters Kind Instead Particular Particular Kind Most Force Arms Person Being Who Basic Level
Tyranny is always better organized than freedom. Charles Peguy
Freedom Better Tyranny Always Than Organized
Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper. Charles Peguy
Today Morning Old Nothing New Perhaps Newspaper Homer
It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last. Charles Sanders Peirce
Man Envy Impossible Out Must Know Although How Turn Dismiss Reason Who Last
All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite. Charles Sanders Peirce
Definite Evolution Know Proceeds Vague
A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be. Charles Sanders Peirce
Future Character Quality Law Must Embodied Something Determining Habit Except Never How Continue Been Endless May Being Capable Might
Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so high a degree of confidence as all minds have or can be made to have through their agreements. Chauncey Wright
Confidence Made Degree Ought Minds Evidence Though Kind High Only Through Which Produce Produces Agreements Belief
And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization. Chauncey Wright
Science Genius Progress Men Rather Civilization Tendency Individual Combined Than Owe Any Energies Inherent
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