Quotes on Philosophical

Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative

What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational

The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'.

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.

Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past - they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

I also ask you my friends not to condemn me entirely to the mill of mathematical calculations, and allow me time for philosophical speculations, my only pleasures.

Mathematics has a threefold purpose. It must provide an instrument for the study of nature. But this is not all: it has a philosophical purpose, and, I daresay, an aesthetic purpose.

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.