Philosopher Quotes

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.
Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.
Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
Common sense is calculation applied to life.
Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
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