Menu

 Authors
A B C D E F
G H I J K L
M N O P Q R
S T U V W S
Y Z
Get Socialize
My Account
Make Free Wallpaper

4485 Philosopher Quotes

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

Nature Forth Large Bounded
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Truth Authority Time Daughter
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

Fame Light Solid Swollen
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

Prosperity Blessing New Old
  Favorite Make wallpaper

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

Man Gracious World Citizen
  Favorite Make wallpaper

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

Advice Example Admonition Build
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

Pencil Affiction Solomon Job
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

Men Superstition Observe Hit
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Fear Comfort Adversity Distastes
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Sort Part Experience Education
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

Rebellions Belly Worst Power
  Favorite Make wallpaper

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Man Philosophy Religion Depth
  Favorite Make wallpaper

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Everything Garden Library You
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

Gratitude Greatest Only Others
  Favorite Make wallpaper
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
Natural Infant Painful Die
  Favorite Make wallpaper

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

Always Before Born Child
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cause Most Orator Vehement
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

Contend Enemy Folly Gates
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

Look Fortune Blind Invisible
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Revenge Justice Nature Law
  Favorite Make wallpaper

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

God Greatest Smallest Wire
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
Price Market Fortune Fall
  Favorite Make wallpaper

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

God Exercise Intellect Side
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Life Age Miserable Happy
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

Spirit Genius Nation Proverbs
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

Joy Grieves Fear Secret
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Subtlety Nature Sense Greater
  Favorite Make wallpaper

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Certain Man Revenge Green
  Favorite Make wallpaper

'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.

Camp Exaggerated Love Particular
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

Able After Alone Been
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

Avoiding Boredom Controlled Creative
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It is not the position, but the disposition.

Disposition Position
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Artificial Artist Comment Condition
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.

Answers Destroy Interesting Only
  Favorite Make wallpaper

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Beautiful Feminine Masculine Men
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own

Camera Eventually Everyone Makes
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

Actively Best Lunatics Mad
  Favorite Make wallpaper

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it

America Past Person Photographer
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

Body Cultivation Food Mind
  Favorite Make wallpaper
More law, less justice.
Justice Law Less More
  Favorite Make wallpaper

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

Consider Honorable Intended Said
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

Highest Law People Safety
  Favorite Make wallpaper

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Ashamed Say Should Think
  Favorite Make wallpaper

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

Another Freezing Melt Moment
  Favorite Make wallpaper

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

About Considered Deaths Demeaning
  Favorite Make wallpaper

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

About Affront Anything Cannot
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility

Capitalism Expansion Ideology Indefinite
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

Certain Course Critic Entire
  Favorite Make wallpaper

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.

Model Occupies Our Part
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

Animation Charms Depression Melancholy
  Favorite Make wallpaper