Philosopher Quotes - Page 6

• Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Wish, Frightened

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Problems of Philosophy”, p.24, Bertrand Russell

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• Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Wisdom, Nature

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• What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Happiness, Sad

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• Stop waiting for others to change. Recognize that every person has the right to be whatever they choose-even if you irritate yourself about it.

  Wayne Dyer

  Change, Being Yourself, Acceptance

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• Death is nothing to fear. It is only another dimension.

  Wayne Dyer

  Death, Fear, Dying

  Dyer, Wayne (2005). “Everyday Wisdom”, p.57, Hay House, Inc

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• When the student is ready the teacher will appear.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Education, Wisdom

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• Be as you wish to seem.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Integrity, Hypocrisy

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• Don't be someone that searches, finds and then runs away.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Running, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 03, 2014

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• Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer do not love at all. Love discovers truths about individuals that others cannot see

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Love, Truth, Thinking

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• One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.

  Immanuel Kant

  Inspirational, Change, Wisdom

  Immanuel Kant (1996). “Kant: The Metaphysics of Morals”, p.23, Cambridge University Press

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• Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Buddhist

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• The nation which once held the creed that greatness is achieved by production, is now told that it is achieved by squalor.

  Ayn Rand

  Greatness, Novelists, Achieve

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.382, Hamilton Books

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• Fear clogs; Faith liberates.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Faith, Freedom

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.

  Karl Marx

  Love, Philosophy, World

  "The German Ideology". Book by Karl Marx (p. 103), 1845-1846.

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• To love someone is to acknowledge the goodness of who they are. Through loving a person we awaken their awareness of their own innate goodness. It is as though they cannot know how worthy they are until they look into the mirror of our love and see themselves.

  John Gray

  Love, Relationship, Appreciation

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• The first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man's first duty is to himself. His moral law is never to place his prime goal within the persons of others. His moral obligation is to do what he wishes, provided his wish does not depend primarily upon other men.

  Ayn Rand

  Independent, Men, Rights

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.76, Penguin

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• Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

  Ayn Rand

  Sacrifice, Self, Novelists

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.804, Penguin

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• I am. I think. I will.

  Ayn Rand

  Thinking, Novelists, Anthem

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.46, Xist Publishing

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• It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Powerful, Self, Deception

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.340, Vintage

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• Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

  Samuel Richardson

  Love, Fall, Just Friends

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.267

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• It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Science, Technology, Age

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• I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played.

  Mattie Stepanek

  Want, Poet, Peacemaker

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• The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Jobs, Philosophy

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• No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Hero, Men, World

  Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James East Irby (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.115, New Directions Publishing

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• In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?

  Terry Pratchett

  Money, Founders, Profession

  Terry Pratchett (2002). “Night watch”, Doubleday UK

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