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Let us hasten to make philosophy popular.
Denis Diderot - Pensées sur l'interprétation de la nature / 





No contingency anywhere in the universe; no indifference; no liberty. While we act, we are, at the same time, acted upon.
David Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding / 





We must observe that in each one of us there are two ruling and leading principles, which we follow whithersoever they lead; one is the innate desire for pleasures, the other an acquired opinion which strives for the best. These two sometimes agree within us and are sometimes in strife; and sometimes one, and sometimes the other has the greater power.
Plato - Phaedrus / 





Love is not merely a sentiment, it is an art.
Honore de Balzac - The Quest of the Absolute / 





I fear the man of a single book.
Thomas Aquinas / 





It is much easier to obey your superior than to command yourself; and when you can do whatever you want, it's not easy to want only what you have to.
Louis XIV / 





Of nothing comes nothing.
Lucretius, Titus Lucretius Carus - De rerum natura / 





Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
William Shakespeare - Venus and Adonis / 





There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées / 





We don't choose the things that happen to us, but we can choose how we react to them.
Paulo Coelho - Hippie / 





Today I know how to salute beauty.
Arthur Rimbaud - Une saison en enfer / 





Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education / 





Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
Immanuel Kant - Critique of Pure Reason / 





In fact, every child is to a certain extent a genius, and every genius to a certain extent a child.
Arthur Schopenhauer / 





A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
André Gide / 





A Destiny is not a punishment.
Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus / 





Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer.
Guillaume Apollinaire / 





The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.
Antisthenes / 





All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.
George Orwell - Animal Farm / 





The heart has mysteries which no reasoning can penetrate.
Guy de Maupassant / 





Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray / 





I told myself that as long as there were books I could be sure of being happy.
Simone de Beauvoir - Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter / 





Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 





Thus, down to the time of Gutenberg, architecture is the principal writing, the universal writing.
Victor Hugo - The Hunchback of Notre-Dame / 





Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus / 





Those who cannot attack the thought, instead attack the thinker.
Paul Valéry / 





To be is to be perceived or to perceive.
George Berkeley / 



To be is to be perceived or to perceive.



It is a thousand times easier to do good than to do it well.
Charles de Montesquieu - The Spirit of the Laws / 





Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Isaac Asimov / 





Among all the different expressions which may render one of our thoughts, only one is the right one.
Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères / 






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