Quotes by Philosopher of the Authors - Page 250

People cannot accept their own evil if they do not at the same time feel loved, respected and trusted.
Jean Vanier / Philosopher
Accepting
Evil
People
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Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau / Philosopher
Nature
Men
Children
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I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
Jean-Paul Sartre / Philosopher
Air
Light
Moving
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Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
Jean-Paul Sartre / Philosopher
Acting
People
Personality
Absorb
Experience Your People
Adding
Personalities
Question
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Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident
Jean-Paul Sartre / Philosopher
Philosophical
Reason
Weakness
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I am alone in this white, garden-rimmed street. Alone and free. But this freedom is rather like death.
Jean-Paul Sartre / Philosopher
Garden
Streets
White
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Philosophers who pay for their semantics by drawing checks on Darwin are in debt way over their heads.
Jerry Fodor / Philosopher
Debt
Drawing
Pay
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Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.
Johann Georg Hamann / Philosopher
Book
Fairy
Fairy Tale
Letters
Philosophical
Letter
Tale
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Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.
Johann Gottfried Herder / Philosopher
Wise
Fool
Silence
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Schools should take part in the great work of construction and organization that will have to be done.
John Dewey / Philosopher
Education
Organization
School
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The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.
John Dewey / Philosopher
Phrases
Self
Thinking
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Language exists only when it is listened to as well as spoken. The hearer is an indispensable partner.
John Dewey / Philosopher
Language
Partners
Writing
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Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
John Locke / Philosopher
Men
Book
Thinking
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There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.
John Locke / Philosopher
Nature
Animal
Understanding
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In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
John Locke / Philosopher
Example
Imitation
Thee
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Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement.
John Locke / Philosopher
Improvement
Veins
Want
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Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.
John Stuart Mill / Philosopher
Next
Selfishness
Want
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It is plain to me that our prelates, in granting indulgences, do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God.
John Wycliffe / Philosopher
Wisdom God Me
Commonly
Plain
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The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset / Philosopher
Men
Exploration
Immense
Landscape
Philosophical
Nature Good Man
Advances
Centuries
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Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.
Joseph Butler / Philosopher
Compassion
Demand
Hunger
Natural
Unhappy
Call
Relieve
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But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.
Joseph Priestley / Philosopher
Science
Envy
Lightning
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Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will.
Josiah Royce / Philosopher
Heart
Interfere
Reality
World
Therefore
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Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge.
Jurgen Habermas / Philosopher
Concern
Court
Court Judges
Fall
Judging
Terrorism
Judge
Category
Crimes
Falls
Historically
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We hate the very idea that our own ideas may be mistaken, so we cling dogmatically to our conjectures.
Karl Popper / Philosopher
Hate
Ideas
May
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While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
Karl Popper / Philosopher
Ignorance
Infinite
Littles
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Genuine philosophical problems are always rooted outside philosophy and they die if these roots decay.
Karl Popper / Philosopher
Philosophical
Philosophy
Roots
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All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
Laozi / Philosopher
Change
Inspirational
Opportunity
Smile
Motivation
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Open yourself to the truth, then trust in your natural responses, and everything will fall into place.
Laozi / Philosopher
Fall
Fall Into Place
Natural
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Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.
Leo Strauss / Philosopher
Democracy
Ears
Greatness
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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
Ludwig Von Mises / Philosopher
Peace
War
Disaster
Liberty
Mischief
Course
Main
Main Source
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It is the rule of law alone which hinders the rulers from turning themselves into the worst gangsters.
Ludwig Von Mises / Philosopher
Gangsters
Law
Worst
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In many fields of the administration of interventionist measures, favoritism simply cannot be avoided.
Ludwig Von Mises / Philosopher
Administration
Favoritism
Fields
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In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
Marcus Tullius Cicero / Philosopher
Power
Majority
Ought
Philosophical
Republic
Observed
Predominant
Rule
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As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.
Marcus Tullius Cicero / Philosopher
Age
Cases
Wine
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The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted.
Marcus Tullius Cicero / Philosopher
Foundation
Justice
Suffering
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To those who are engaged in commercial dealings, justice is indispensable for the conduct of business.
Marcus Tullius Cicero / Philosopher
Age
Business
Justice
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But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature.
Marcus Tullius Cicero / Philosopher
Law
Matter
Opinion
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Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero / Philosopher
Men
Knows
Profession
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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
Marquis De Sade / Philosopher
Capacity
Feelings
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Computers can do better than ever what needn't be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly.
Marshall Mcluhan / Philosopher
Computer
Done
Monopoly
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American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
Marshall Mcluhan / Philosopher
Arriving
Attributes
Importance
License
Political
Reality
Voting
Voting Age
Youth
Driver
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The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.
Marshall Mcluhan / Philosopher
Firsts
Immortality
Mistaken
Printing
Printing Press
Engine
Except
Press
Shakespeare
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Mortal men ask God for good things every day, but they never pray that they may make good use of them.
Marsilio Ficino / Philosopher
Men
May
Use
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Patriarchy has stolen our cosmos and returned it in the form of 'Cosmopolitan' magazine and cosmetics.
Mary Daly / Philosopher
Cosmetics
Patriarchy
Stolen
Cosmopolitan
Magazine
Returned
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The very best and highest attainment in this life is to remain still and let God act and speak in you.
Meister Eckhart / Philosopher
Letting Go
Life Is
Speak
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Nothing will be able to hinder us, if we desire and seek God alone, and take pleasure in nothing else.
Meister Eckhart / Philosopher
Able
Desire
Pleasure
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My Lord told me a joke. And seeing Him laugh has done more for me than any scripture I will ever read.
Meister Eckhart / Philosopher
Done
Laughing
Scripture
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Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
Mencius / Philosopher
Friendship
Men
Doe
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Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share in a common life.
Michael Sandel / Philosopher
Democracy
Doe
Perfect
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Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy.
Michel Onfray / Philosopher
Caricatures
Causes
Clergy
Looks
Secular
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