Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes, Pain Quotes, Philosophical Quotes

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Pain Quotes , Philosophical Quotes

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Confucius Quotes , Philosophical Quotes , Beer Quotes

Democracy passes into despotism.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Plato Quotes , Plato Quotes , Philosophical Quotes

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Philosophical Quotes , Tears Quotes

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Philosophical Quotes , Charm Quotes

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Money Quotes , Philosophical Quotes

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Philosophical Quotes , Reality Quotes

Two Chinamen visiting Europe went to the theatre for the first time. One of them occupied himself with trying to understand the theatrical machinery, which he succeeded in doing. The other, despite his ignorance of the language, sought to unravel the meaning of the play. The former is like the astronomer, the latter the philosopher.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Philosophical Quotes , Ignorance Quotes

What a piece of work is a man

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Philosophical Quotes , Men Quotes

The man that hath no music in himself

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Music Quotes , Philosophical Quotes

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Positive Quotes , Philosophical Quotes

And right action is freedom From past and future also.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Philosophical Quotes , Past Quotes

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Philosophical Quotes , Punishment Quotes

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Philosophical Quotes , Law Quotes

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Philosophical Quotes , Adversity Quotes

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , God Quotes , Philosophical Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Philosophical Quotes , Mean Quotes

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Philosophical Quotes , Law Quotes

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Philosophical Quotes , Mean Quotes

I've taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it's a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good uses, it is abused quite a lot.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Lightman Quotes , Communication Quotes , Philosophical Quotes