(216 quotes found)
“There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and that is the folly of the people that says with its head that it does not know whether there is a God or not”
Otto von Bismarck
“There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely DESPERATE. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity.”
Antonin Artaud
“Knowledge without sense is twofold folly”
Spanish Proverb
“Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance”
Pythagoras
“Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't --it's human.”
Desiderius Erasmus
“If we believe that he (Jesus Christ) really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers father upon him, and admit the misconstructions, interpolations, and theorizations of the fathers of the early and the”
Thomas Jefferson
“For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is over, there's an end to it: his annihilation is final and entire, of him nothing survives.”
Marquis De Sade
“It is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as for the frog to swell, in order to equal the ox”
Benjamin Franklin
“Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.”
Tom Robbins
“Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly”
Albert Camus
