Philosophical Quotes
1598 Philosophical quotes by 584 unique authors
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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
— Baron de Montesquieu
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Every guilty person is his own hangman.
— Seneca the Younger
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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
— Baron de Montesquieu
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Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.
— Rene Descartes
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
— Seneca the Younger
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Peace is a natural effect of trade.
— Baron de Montesquieu
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So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.
— George Berkeley
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Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
— Seneca the Younger
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Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Antichrist, Section 7
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
— Baruch Spinoza
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The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
— Seneca the Younger
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
— William James
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
— Baruch Spinoza
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We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.
— Martin Heidegger
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You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.
— Seneca the Younger
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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
— Baron de Montesquieu
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Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
— Seneca the Younger
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Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
— Seneca the Younger
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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
— Henri Bergson
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That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.
— Seneca the Younger
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Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
— Seneca the Younger
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