Philosopher Quotes

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.
Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
Hate is able to provoke disorders, to ruin a social organization, to cast a country into a period of bloody revolutions; but it produces nothing.
Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.
It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.
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