Comparison Quote by Jonathan Swift

Nothing can be truly great which is not right.

— Samuel Johnson

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

— Aldous Huxley

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

— Leo Tolstoy

“Most propositions and questions, that have been written about philosophical matters, are not false, but senseless. ... (They are of the same kind as…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.

— Bertrand Russell

For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it!

— Emile M. Cioran

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

— Edmund Burke

There is no great; there is no small; in the mind that causeth all

— Zitkala-Sa

“The value of a philosopher’s thought is not in its answers—no philosopher has any that are more helpful than saying nothing at all—but in…

— Thomas Ligotti

“Nothing splendid has ever been achived except by those who dare belive that something inside of them was superior to circumstance”

— Bruce Barton

It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have preference above the accurate.

— David Hume