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Philosophical Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg
- The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
- Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each…
- The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral calculus - is…
- We now possess four principles of morality: 1) a philosophical: do good for its own sake, out of respect for the law; 2) a religious:…
More Philosophical Quotes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Hope is a waking dream. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — Aristotle