Wednesday, January 11, 2012

best quotes philosophyFavorite philosophy quotes?

Looking for the best philosophy quotes and the philosophers who said them.
A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
Aristotle

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
Aristotle

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
Plato

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato

An honest man is always a child.
Socrates

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates
i'd be careful of that "Plato",though; sounds very much as if he was jealous! (of lovers,etc)

And in the brilliant work of one karl Popper(The Open society...), Plato said-and-wrote some nasty stuff,too! best quotes philosophy


Just look at us. Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information and religions destroy spirituality.-David Ellner
To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?
Socrates

The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.
Socrates

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to best quotes philosophyget your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
Socrates
Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry - Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength - Eric Hoffer 1902-1983

Were it not for imagination, sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess - Dr Samuel Johnson 1709-1784
Covenants without the sword are but words - Hobbes.
A ton of philosophy can be extremely boring to read, so its nice to come across some cool one-liners once in a while.
"Dare to use your knowledge"

Quoted by Kant and sir Karl Popper;
"It is better to be a human dissatisfied than a pig satisfied."

-J.S. Mill
"Always strive to be kind even especially when you least want to be kind." (me-Richard D.W).
"fame brings a second death."

Boethius

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