Ancient Greek Philosophy:
"The unexamined life is not worth living. ... Wisdom begins in wonder. ... There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance." (Socrates, 469 - 399 B.C.)
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ... At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst." (Aristotle, 384 - 322 B.C.)
"The foundation of every state is the education of its youth." (Diogenes, 412 - 323 BC)
Eastern Philosophy:"Being one with nature, the sage is in accord with the Tao." (Lao Tzu )
"Men"s natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them far apart." (Confucius)
"Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world; it is appeased by love. This is an eternal Law." (Buddha)
"All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service." (Mahatma Gandhi) "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions." (Dalai Lama)
Famous Western Philosophers:
"I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them." (Spinoza)
"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things." (Rene Descartes)
"The wise have always said the same things, and fools have always done just the opposite." (Schopenhauer)
"Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical." (Friedrich Nietzsche)
"Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it." (Leo Tolstoy)
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it." (Karl Marx)
20th Century Philosophy - Philosophers "Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. ... The meaning of a word is its use in the language." (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
"Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free." (Bertrand Russell)
"Everything has been figured out, except how to live." (Jean Paul Sartre)
Physics: Newton"s Mechanics, Quantum Theory, Einstein"s Theory of Relativity, Cosmology "I have explained phenomena ... by the force of gravity, but I have not yet ascertained the cause of gravity itself ... & I do not invent hypotheses." (Sir Isaac Newton)
"I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries." (Marie Curie)
"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it." (Max Planck)
"The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth & sincerity, ... upon himself & other scientists." (Erwin Schrodinger)
"Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it." (Bohr)
"I think it is safe to say that no one understands Quantum Mechanics." (Richard Feynman)
Albert Einstein Philosopher Physicist "If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it." "If we have the courage to decide for peace, we will have peace." "Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds." "The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty and Truth." (Albert Einstein)
Mathematics - Famous Mathematicians:
"Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. ... Philosophy is the product of wonder." (Alfred North Whitehead)
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. ... Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth." (Blaise Pascal)
"The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God." (Euclid)
Famous Scientists Inventors Explorers"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual." (Galileo Galilei)
"Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world." (Louis Pasteur)
"I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success." (Nikola Tesla)
"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk." (Thomas Edison)
Theology - World Religions:
"All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours." (Aldous Huxley)
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." (Albert Einstein)
"There was only one true Christian, and he died on the cross." (Friedrich Nietzsche)
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." (Seneca)
"As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith." (Cicero)
Famous Leaders Presidents Politicians Roman Emperors: "If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner." (Nelson Mandela)
"And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." (JFK)
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin, but by the content of their character." (Martin Luther King Jr.)
"We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of arms." (Jimmy Carter)
Education - Educational Philosophy:
"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance. (Socrates)
"The educated differ from the uneducated, as the living from the dead." (Aristotle)
"The foundation of every state is the education of its youth." (Diogenes)
"Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?" (Michel de Montaigne)
"Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. ... Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education." (Jean Jacques Rousseau)
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." (Nelson Mandela)
Nature Environment Evolution Ecology:
"Simplify, Simplify. ... Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth." (Henry David Thoreau)
"I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection." (Darwin)
"The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future." (Herbert Spencer)
"A nation that destroys it"s soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people." (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
Famous Quotes: Motivational - Inspirational - Wisdom Quotations
"Meditate often upon the bond of all in the Universe and their mutual relationship. For all things are in a way woven together." (Marcus Aurelius)
"All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing." (Edmund Burke)
"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it." (Goethe)
"To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly." (William James)
"Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind." (Teddy Roosevelt)
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." (Gandhi)
Famous Poets: Metaphysical Poetry & Romantic Poems on Love and Human Emotions
"Was it not for you the glacier today exchanged its grey for roses? ... For you have I prepared my table ... who lives so near the stars as I, or who so near the depths of the abyss?" (Friedrich Nietzsche)
"No one was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrancy of all human knowledge ..." (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility." (William Wordsworth)
Literature:
"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. ... Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." (George Orwell)
"I have nothing to declare except my genius." (Oscar Wilde)
"Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy." (Voltaire)
"But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, ..." (Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet)
Love Sex Human Sexuality Quotes on Erotic Art: "The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always moral." (Aristippus quote on Vintage Erotic Art)
"Analyse any human emotion, ...and you are sure to discover somewhere the primal impulse, to which life owes its perpetuation." (Sigmund Freud quote on Erotic Art)
"Sexual pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; ..." (Simone de Beauvoir)
Famous Musicians - Classical Composer"s Portraits :
"My Lord, I should be sorry if I only entertained them; I wished to make them better." (George Frederic Handel)
"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius." (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
"I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired." (Richard Wagner)
Famous Women: Philosophy, Science, Feminism, Art
"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks." (Mary Wollstonecraft)
"We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help to free the other half." (Emmeline Pankhurst)
"You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity." (Marie Curie)
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin)
Renaissance Impressionist :
"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." (Michelangelo)
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." (Leonardo da Vinci)
"Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. ...Colour is my day-long obsession, my joy and torment." (Monet)
"People call me the painter of dancers, but I really wish to capture movement itself." (Degas)
"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent Van Gogh)
Adult Satire - Funny Quotes - Stupid Jokes - Philosophy Humor:Question: What do you get when you cross the Godfather with a philosopher?
Answer: An offer you can"t understand!
Descartes is sitting in a bar, having a drink. The bartender asks him if he would like another. "I think not," he says and vanishes in a puff of logic. "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I"m not sure about the universe." (Albert Einstein)
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