Philosopher Quotes

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
The place of justice is a hallowed place.
The remedy is worse than the disease.
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
The worst men often give the best advice.
The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
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