Quotes for: thing

Quotes for: thing

There are certain things that we hide in order to reveal them.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays

He is fortunate who had been able to learn the causes of things.
Publius Vergilius Maro

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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods

It is valid to conclude from actuality to possibility, but not from possibility to actuality.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
Epictetus

Conformity of the intellect to the things.
Thomas Aquinas

Only the passions, the great passions, can lift the soul to the greatest things.
Denis Diderot - Philosophical Thoughts

Beauty is no quality in things themselves : It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them ; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
David Hume - Of the Standard of Taste

Things do not change we change.
Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods

Doubt always arises from the fact that things are investigated without order.
Baruch Spinoza

The eyes cannot know the nature of things.
Lucretius, Titus Lucretius Carus - De rerum natura

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"Know yourself" is the whole of science. Only at the end of the perception of all things will man have recognized himself. For things are only the borders of man.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Dawn

The order and connection of the thought is identical to with the order and connection of the things.
Baruch Spinoza - Ethics

All men are not capable of great things, but all are sensitive to great things.
Alfred de Musset

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In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées

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The imagination is nothing other than the subject transported into things.
Gaston Bachelard

Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves; we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims