Philosophical Quotes
1598 Philosophical quotes by 584 unique authors
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
— Bertrand Russell
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
— Bertrand Russell
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
— Bertrand Russell
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
— Bertrand Russell
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The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the…
— Bertrand Russell
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Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else…
— Bertrand Russell
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To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
— George Santayana
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If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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