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Philosophy consists of speculations about matters where exact knowledge is not yet possible.

Bertrand Russell /

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

Henry David Thoreau /

Whenever the true objects of action appear, they are to be heartily sought. Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson /

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

Heraclitus of Ephesus /

He who controls himself once can always control himself.

Pierre Corneille /

oneself

Cleopatra's nose: if it had been shorter the whole face of the earth would have been different.

Blaise Pascal - Pensées /

To choose an adviser is nevertheless to commit oneself by that choice.

Jean-Paul Sartre - Existentialism and Humanism /

Illumination is no more than the Spirit's sudden vision of a road that is long prepared.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery /

mind

There are two classes of poets — the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.

Ralph Waldo Emerson /

One does not know completely a science as long as one does not know its history.

Auguste Comte - Course of Positive Philosophy /

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark /

ears

The mind of man is so framed that it is rather taken with the false colors than truth.

Desiderius Erasmus - In Praise of Folly /

To me men are for what they are, They wear no masks with me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson /

The function of a writer is to call a spade a spade. If words are sick, it is up to us to cure them.

Jean-Paul Sartre /

As is the generation of leaves, so is that of humanity.
The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the live timber
Burgeons with leaves again in the season of spring returning.
So one generation of men will grow while another dies.

Homer - Iliad /

Naught exists just as much as Aught.

Democritus - Fragments /

Each of us has the potential to contribute… You have a great opportunity to make a new shape of the world.

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama /

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

Henry David Thoreau /

Every movement takes time and is for the sake of an end.

Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics /

Modern technology's golden promises have turned into a threat.

Hans Jonas - The Imperative of Responsibility /

Pain is something other than pleasure - I want to say, it is not the opposite.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche /

To travel is to live.

Hans Christian Andersen - The fairy tale of my life /

None so deaf as those who will not hear.

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière - L'Amour médecin /

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

I don't know whether it can be or not; but I know well enough that so it is.

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière - L'Amour médecin /

The wise are sparing both of time and words.

Jean de La Fontaine - Fables /

Love has no price but love.

Friedrich Schiller - Don Carlos /

love

Everyone has his own glasses. But no one knows for sure what color the lenses are.

Alfred de Musset /

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

friendship

The order and connection of the thought is identical to with the order and connection of the things.

Baruch Spinoza - Ethics /

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