Fishermen, hunters, woodchoppers, and others, spending their lives in the fields and woods, in a peculiar sense a part of Nature themselves, are ofte….
It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong..
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise..
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits..
These dreams reminded me that, since I wished some day to become a writer, it was high time to decide what sort of books I was going to write. But as….
What makes philosophy so tedious is not the profundity of philosophers, but their lack of art; they are like physicians who soughtto cure a slight hy….
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death..
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations..
Beside some philosophers of larger vision, Carlyle stands like an honest, half-despairing boy, grasping at some details only of their world systems..
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides..
A friend is, as it were, a second self..
Scientific thought - indeed, any mode of thought, whether it be religious or philosophical or anything else - is just like the fashions that we wear ….
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not..
If you read philosophical texts of the tradition, you'll notice they almost never said 'I,' and didn't speak in the first person. From Aristotle to H….
The Oriental philosophy approaches easily loftier themes than the modern aspires to; and no wonder if it sometimes prattle about them. It only assign….
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws..
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk..
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed..
If you are a seer, whenever you meet a man you will see all that he owns, ay, and much that he pretends to disown, behind him..
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees..
It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the other beings too have been intended fo….