Philosopher Quotes

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - You write backward Es!
No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.
After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.
And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools.
And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.
Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic.
But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious.
Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.
For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples.
Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance.
In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding.
In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language.
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