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Philosophy quotes — page 17

Quotations 385–408 of 692.

  1. Friendship cannot exist except among the good.
  2. Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in tomorrow.
  3. They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.
  4. Resist the beginnings.
  5. Love, and do what you will.
  6. Abandon all hope, you who enter here.
  7. There is no greater pain than to recall happy times in misery.
  8. All of humanity’s misfortune comes from one thing: not knowing how to remain quietly in a room.
  9. Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.
  10. Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
  11. I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
  12. All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
  13. Two souls, alas, are dwelling in my breast.
  14. Man is only fully human where he plays.
  15. What a person is stands far more in his power than what he has.
  16. Despair is a sickness of the spirit.
  17. The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief.
  18. What I propose… is nothing more than to think what we are doing.
  19. The Master said: The resolute scholar and the man of ren will not seek life at the expense of ren; they may even sacrifice life to accomplish ren.
  20. The Master said: The wise are not perplexed; the humane are not anxious; the brave are not afraid.
  21. The Master said: I do not resent Heaven, nor blame men; I learn from below and reach upward.
  22. Only when there are things one will not do, can one then accomplish things.
  23. In pursuing learning, one increases day by day; in pursuing the Way, one decreases day by day. Decreasing and decreasing again, one arrives at non-action.
  24. The stiff and unbending is the disciple of death; the soft and yielding is the disciple of life.