Philosophy quotes — page 19

Nothing is without a reason.

The heaviest penalty is to be ruled by someone worse than oneself.

Wonder is very much the mark of a philosopher.

Virtue lies in a mean.

The cry of the flesh is not to be hungry, not to be thirsty, not to be cold.

Be mostly silent, or speak only what is necessary.

We are made for cooperation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids.

All things are alien to us; time alone is ours.

The best weapons of old age are the arts and practices of the virtues.

Whatever is received is received according to the mode of the receiver.

to change my desires rather than the order of the world

Not to laugh at, lament, or detest human actions, but to understand them.

Man is visibly made to think; that is his whole dignity and his whole merit.

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

Act so that the maxim of your will could always hold at the same time as a principle of universal legislation.

Everyone takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

Would you have this life again? — Well then! Once more!

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy… can still do.

The freedom of others… conditions my freedom.

Zengzi said: A scholar-officer must be broad and resolute, for his burden is heavy and his Way is long.

The Master said: To restrain the self and return to ritual propriety is ren. One day of this, and all under Heaven will turn toward ren.

Treat the elders of your own family with reverence, and extend that to the elders of others; treat your own young with kindness, and extend that to the young of others.