Famous Quotes & Sayings

Confucius

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

Daniel Tammet

We know next to nothing with any certainty about Pythagoras, except that he was not really called Pythagoras. The name by which he is known to us was probably a nickname bestowed by his followers. According to one source, it meant ‘He who spoke truth like an oracle’. Rather than entrust his mathematical and philosophical ideas to paper, Pythagoras is said to have expounded them before large crowds. The world’s most famous mathematician was also its first rhetorician.

David Bohm

From the outset, however, this whole controversy has been plagued by tacit assumptions, very often of a philosophical rather than a physical character...

David O. Russell

When most people turn on their TVs, they don't expect a frank discussion of philosophical ideas in their practical context. Or any context.

Anita Brookner

Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

Daniel Barenboim

Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.

Cyrano de Bergerac

In it he proves that all things are true and states how the truths of all contradictions may be reconciled physically, such as for example that white is black and black is white; that one can be and not be at the same time; that there can be hills without valleys; that nothingness is something and that everything, which is, is not. But take note that he proves all these unheard-of paradoxes without any fallacious or sophistical reasoning.

Andre Gide

To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but can not and feels isolated. Then come gestures, words, awkward explanations and material symbols for imponderable outbursts of feeling-and the soul despairs.

Anaxagoras

In everything, there is a share of everything

David Harvey

There are signs, these days, that the cultural hegemony of postmodernism is weakening in the West. When even the developers tell an architect like Moshe Safdie that they are tired of it, then can philosophical thinking be far behind?

Evan Parker

There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.

Karl Marx

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

Karl Marx

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

Karl Marx

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

Karl Marx

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

Karl Marx

A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

Karl Marx

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

Karl Marx

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

Karl Marx

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

Karl Marx

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

Karl Marx

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

In every age and every generation, men have envisioned a promised land. Some may have envisioned it with the wrong ideology, with the wrong philosophical presupposition. But men in every generation thought in terms of some promised land.

Harold Bloom

What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.

Jay Leno

Rick Perry was philosophical about (his election losses). He said, 'Last week was Iowa. Yesterday was New Hampshire. ' He said at least it's giving him a chance to learn the names of all the states.

Joseph Stalin

Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marx’s proletarian socialism logically follows. This philosophical system is called dialectical materialism.

Protagoras

Man is the measure of all things.

Niccolo Machiavelli

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

Niccolo Machiavelli

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

Niccolo Machiavelli

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

Niccolo Machiavelli

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Niccolo Machiavelli

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

Niccolo Machiavelli

One can generally say this about men: that they are ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, greedy for gain; and while you work for their good they are completely yours, offering you their blood, their property, their lives, and their sons when danger is far away; but when it comes nearer to you, they turn away.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.