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Philosophical literature633 quotes

God is dead: but as the human race is constituted, there will perhaps be caves for millenniums yet, in which people will show his shadow. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1882 Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder. — Socrates · 400 BC The unexamined life is not worth living. — Socrates · 399 BC In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain... And the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. — Thomas Hobbes · 1651 And with the guts of the last priest Let's wring the neck of the last king. — Denis Diderot · 1772 Man is the measure of all things. — Protagoras · 420 BC All 633 quotes →

Political literature105 quotes

In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain... And the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. — Thomas Hobbes · 1651 Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1762 Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle · 350 BC No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other. — Aristotle · 350 BC The basis of a democratic state is liberty. — Aristotle · 350 BC Curiosity...is a Lust of the mind. — Thomas Hobbes · 1651 All 105 quotes →

Religious literature37 quotes

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. — Lao Tzu · 400 BC Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. — Lao Tzu · 400 BC I believe in one God and no more, and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow creatures happy. — Thomas Paine · 1794 The church has set up a system of religion very contradictory to the character of the person whose name it bears. It has set up a religion of pomp and of revenue in pretended imitation of a person whose life was humility and poverty. — Thomas Paine · 1794 A people was a multitude defined by the common objects of their love. — St. Augustine · 426 It is necessary to the happiness of man, that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. — Thomas Paine · 1794 All 37 quotes →

Didactic poem14 quotes

Life is one long struggle in the dark. — Lucretius · 55 BC And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all. — Lucretius · 55 BC The ring on the finger becomes thin beneath by wearing, the fall of dripping water hollows the stone. — Lucretius · 55 BC A tree cannot grow in the sky, nor clouds be in the deep sea, nor fish live in the fields, nor can blood be in sticks nor sap in rocks. — Lucretius · 55 BC Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation: not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive what ills you are free from yourself is pleasant. — Lucretius · 55 BC Lovely it is, when the winds are churning up the waves on the great sea, to gaze out from the land on the great efforts of someone else; not because it's an enjoyable pleasure that somebody is in difficulties, but because it's lovely to realize what troubles you are yourself spared. — Lucretius · 55 BC All 14 quotes →

Historical literature4 quotes

We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel · 1832 The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel · 1832 Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition... The housewife wears herself out marking time: she makes nothing, simply perpetuates the present. — Simone de Beauvoir · 1949 The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body. — Michel Foucault · 1975

Biography2 quotes

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. — Aristotle He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him. — Bion of Borysthenes

Economic literature2 quotes

Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love. — Adam Smith · 1759 In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. — Laurence J. Peter · 1969

Autobiography and memoir1 quote

What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1908

Economical literature1 quote

To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world-and, at the same time, that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are. — Marshall Berman · 1982

Nature writing1 quote

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him Vandal. When he wantonly destroys one of the works of God we call him Sportsman. — Joseph Wood Krutch · 1956

Scientific literature1 quote

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. So the old bamboozles tend to persist as the new ones rise. — Carl Sagan · 1995