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4485 Philosopher Quotes
4485 Philosopher Quotes
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
Thomas Paine
Dark
Mind
Once
Again
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I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.
Umberto Eco
Wisdom
Become
Depend
Believe
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Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.
Vernon Howard
Slow
Break
Progress
Natural
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The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else’s eyes.
Voltaire
Else
Eye
Way
See
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Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
William James
Action
Bring
Always
But
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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
Xenocrates
Have
Speech
Never
Often
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There is one God - supreme among gods and men - who is like mortals in neither body nor mind.
Xenophanes
Among
Mind
Mortal
Body
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The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.
Xunzi
Desire
Eager
Want
Animal
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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
Bertrand Russell
Motives
Boast
Enjoy
Book
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Bertrand Russell
Fear
Opinion
Once
Now
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Bertrand Russell
Love
Caution
True
Form
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand Russell
Cause
Modern
World
Doubt
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Bertrand Russell
Fear
Dead
Life
Love
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And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence.
Bertrand Russell
Doubt
Vanity
Those
Existence
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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Bertrand Russell
Passion
Strong
Life
Pity
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A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
Bertrand Russell
Report
Accurate
Understand
Hear
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In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted
Bertrand Russell
Hang
Mark
Long
Affair
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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.
Bertrand Russell
Prove
Exist
Ancient
Region
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Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.
Bertrand Russell
Great
Stupid
Clever
Democracy
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
Bertrand Russell
Symptom
Approach
Nervous
Belief
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It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
Bertrand Russell
Catch
Easy
Fall
Love
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
Bertrand Russell
Burn
Life
Bridge
Cross
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My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
Bertrand Russell
Obvious
Desire
Wish
Start
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To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.
Bertrand Russell
Philosophy
Study
Age
Chief
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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
Bertrand Russell
Nobly
Prevent
Free
Else
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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
Bertrand Russell
Intimacy
Intense
Deep
Known
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We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
Bertrand Russell
Knowledge
Power
Astonishing
Little
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When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.
Bertrand Russell
Think
Teach
Children
Begin
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He whom love touches not walks in darkness.
Plato
Whom
Love
Touch
Walk
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Albert Camus
Know
Only
One
Duty
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When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
Plato
Tyrant
Enemies
Treaty
Foreign
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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act rightly because we are excellent, in fact we achieve excellence by acting rightly.
Plato
Excellence
Gift
Skill
Practice
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Plato
Human
Behavior
Emotions
Flows
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It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
Diogenes
Mad
Not
That
Head
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
Plato
Direction
Education
Starts
Future
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Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
Plato
Absurd
Practice
Prevails
Country
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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
Plato
Nation
Curse
Sort
Action
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the law.
Plato
Good
Act
Law
Responsibly
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He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
Confucius
Learn
Think
Danger
Lost
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The man who says he can, and the man who says he can't… Are both correct.
Confucius
Man
Correct
Says
Who
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If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
Confucius
Men
Server
Walking
Teacher
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Confucius
Life
Thoughts
Your
Make
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The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.
Confucius
Asks
Fool
Minute
Question
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Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.
Confucius
Real
Knowledge
Ignorance
Extent
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When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.
Confucius
Good
Person
Think
Weak
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If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.
Confucius
Mistake
Correct
Called
You
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If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind, no burdens can bow us down, because they are sacrifices for the benefit of all; then we shall experience no petty, limited, selfish joy, but our happiness will belong to millions, our deeds will live on quietly but perpetually at work, and over our ashes will be shed the hot tears of noble people.
Karl Marx
Joy
Work
Life
Chosen
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For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
Karl Marx
World
Object
Bureaucrat
Him
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Karl Marx
Keep
History
Easily
Controlled
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Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.
Karl Marx
Science
Time
Incorporate
Natural
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