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4485 Philosopher Quotes

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

Cause Failure Faith His
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

Belief Concerning Doubt Faith
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

Always Anything Believe Everyone
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Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

Case Else Faith Greatest
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

Eternal Hanging Nothing Task
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Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

Actually Catch Character Darker
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An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

Come Force Idea Individual
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Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

About Another Being Currents
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We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.

Because Happy Laugh
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

Day Each EachDay Everybody
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
Depends Life Liver Living
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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

Cling Doomed Even Find
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If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.

Door God Grace Subliminal
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Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Acceptance Any Consequences First
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

Him Individuals Man Many
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If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

Any Becomes Fails Fulfill
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Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

Because Blame Common Determines
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

Any Clear Fully Grasp
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Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

Any Anything Believes Cheap
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Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

Feels Force Full He
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
Cure Prayer Sovereign Worry
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

After Cheap Pay Price
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If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

Could Decide Drunkenness Experience
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This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

Life Living Make Say
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We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

Call Falsehood Get Live
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Endure Fact Gain Happiness
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

Alter Altering Attitudes Beings
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

Act Had Quality Want
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There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

Contradict One Thing Only Only One Thing
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

After Chain Life Link
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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

Characters Endured Hell Hereafter
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The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

Argument Best Deserves Existence
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Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.

Freedom Wolves Meant Dealth
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Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.

Came Drink Know Whence
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Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.

About Argument Came Doctor
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.

Door Found Key Might
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The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
Retires Solitude Soul Thoughtful
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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Again Come Fate Life
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The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

Cancel Finger Half Having
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When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.

Back Decide Happen Happening
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The Flower that once has blown forever dies.
Blown Dies Flower Forever
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The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes - or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two - is gone.

Anon Ashes Desert Dusty
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Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

Wise Find Opportunty Wisdon
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I no longer cared about survival...I merely loved.

Survival I Loved Cared
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Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
Friendship Seldom Increase Visiting
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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

GOd Purest Human Planted
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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Fashion Social Intercourse Form
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The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Life Soul Good Evil
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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
Judges Inferences Law Torture
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The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

Corrolative Love Hate Neigbors
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