(1789 quotes found)
“There is a desire deep within the soul which drives man from the seen to the unseen, to philosophy and to the divine”
Kahlil Gibran
“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”
Winston Churchill
“It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived /forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.”
Soren Kierkegaard
“Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others”
Oscar Wilde
“If you set your heart upon philosophy, you must straightway prepare yourself to be laughed at and mocked by many who will say Behold a philosopher arisen among us! or How came you by that brow of scorn? But do you cherish no scorn, but hold to those things which seem to you the best, as one set by God in that place. Remember too, that if you abide in those ways, those who first mocked you, the same shall afterwards reverence you; but if you yield to them, you will be laughed at twice as much as before.”
Epictetus
“I despise a world which does not feel that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy”
Ludwig van Beethoven
“Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“No-one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others, for each may seek his happiness in whatever way he sees fit, so long as he does not infringe upon the freedom of others to pursue a similar end which can be reconciled with the freedom of everyone else within a workable general law – i.e. he must accord to others the same right as he enjoys himself.”
Immanuel Kant
“There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.”
Rufus Wainwright
“"Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights”
Dag Hammarskjold
