Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aristotle

For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize.... And a man who is puzzled and wonders thinks himself ignorant ...; therefore since they philosophized in order to escape from ignorance, evidently they were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.

Aristotle

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Aristotle

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

Aristotle

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Aristotle

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

Aristotle

Bad men are full of repentance.

Aristotle

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

Aristotle

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

Aristotle

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

Aristotle

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Aristotle

Nature does nothing in vain.

Aristotle

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

Aristotle

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Aristotle

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Aristotle

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

Edward Zwick

However much I may like to talk about or be interested in a more philosophical or moral agenda, [film] is, ultimately, about narrative. And it's about telling stories that are engaging and dramatic.

Abraham Lincoln

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

Jonathan Ive

I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in simplicity; in clarity, in efficiency. True simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absence of clutter and ornamentation. It's about bringing order to complexity.

William Shakespeare

There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently

Ada Lovelace

We might even invent laws for series or formula in an arbitrary manner, and set the engine to work upon them, and thus deduce numerical results which we might not otherwise have thought of obtaining; but this would hardly perhaps in any instance be productive of any great practical utility, or calculated to rank higher than as a philosophical amusement.

Aleksandar Hemon

I don't think that everyone should have a philosophical answer to any given question. There are things that need to be done.

Alfred North Whitehead

It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.

Aldo Leopold

It is inconceivable to me that an ethical relation to land can exist without love, respect, and admiration for land, and a high regard for its value. By value, I of course mean something far broader than mere economic value; I mean value in the philosophical sense.

Albert Einstein

Now to the term 'relativity theory.' I admit that it is unfortunate, and has given occasion to philosophical misunderstandings.

Aberjhani

There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.

Jane Smiley

'Ape House' is an ambitious novel in several ways, for which it is to be admired, and it is certainly an easy read, but because Gruen is not quite prepared for the philosophical implications of her subject, it is not as deeply involving emotionally or as interesting thematically as it could be.

Al Gore

Earlier in this century, the Heisenberg Principle established that the very act of observing a natural phenomenon can change what is being observed. Although the initial theory was limited in practice to special cases in subatomic physics, the philosophical implications were and are staggering.

Arthur Schopenhauer

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.