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Philosophy quotes — page 21

Quotations 481–504 of 692.

  1. Attitudes toward life are basically three: striving forward, holding the mean in harmony, and turning back inward.
  2. In the realm with a self, one views things through the self, so things take on one’s coloring. In the realm without a self, one views things through things, and no longer knows which is self and which is thing.
  3. He who has begun has half done.
  4. Late have I loved you, beauty so ancient and so new.
  5. the Love that moves the sun and the other stars
  6. Consider what effects… we conceive the object of our conception to have. Then, our conception of these effects is the whole of our conception of the object.
  7. Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
  8. The most ordinary things escape notice precisely because they are ordinary.
  9. Courage is the self-affirmation of being in spite of the fact of nonbeing.
  10. To philosophize is to be on the way.
  11. When exhausted, change; when changing, one gets through; when getting through, one endures.
  12. If all under Heaven love one another universally, there is order; if they hate one another mutually, there is disorder.
  13. The Good… is to be honored still more highly than knowledge and truth.
  14. You must change your mind, not the sky.
  15. True eloquence mocks eloquence.
  16. Man is a rope stretched between animal and overman — a rope over an abyss.
  17. The Master said: The gentleman seeks harmony but not sameness; the petty man seeks sameness but not harmony.
  18. Those who understand me are few; therefore I am valued.
  19. Perfect friendship is the friendship of those who are good and alike in virtue.
  20. When the Peng bird migrates to the southern darkness, the waters are shaken for three thousand li, and it rises on a whirlwind ninety thousand li high.
  21. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body.
  22. Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
  23. My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces.
  24. Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.