Quotes on Philosophical

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.

Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.