Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hedy Lamarr

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.

Hector Hugh Munro

He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep and let sleep.

Henry David Thoreau

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

Henry David Thoreau

Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food

Henry David Thoreau

Simplify, simplify, simplify.

Henry David Thoreau

Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.

Patricia Heaton

I find it impossible to subscribe to a philosophy that believes that the destruction of human life is a legitimate solution to a problem that is mostly social, economic and psychological,... In reality, most women 'choose' abortion because they believe they have no other choice.

P. J. O'Rourke

A pleasant natural environment is a good - a luxury good, philosophical good, a moral goody-good, a good time for all. Whatever, we want it. If we want something, we should pay for it, with our labor or our cash. We shouldn't beg it, steal it, sit around wishing for it, or euchre the government into taking it by force.

Plato

Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.

Plato

There is no other start to philosophy but wonder.

Plato

That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless

Plato

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

Plato

A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants

Plato

My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and power - are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?

Plato

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

Plato

Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.

Plato

What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world which we shall call true philosophy.

Plato

There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy . ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas.

Plato

The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.

Plato

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.

Plato

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

Plato

The learning and knowledge that we have,is,at the most,but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Plato

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

Plato

Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways.

Plato

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

Plato

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

Plato

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

Plato

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

Plato

Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.

Plato

The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.

Plato

Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.

Plato

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

Plato

States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers.