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(1) 2015-08-15 me and King Leonidas of Sparta, Greece, in front of the Acropolis Museum, in Athens, Greece.
(2) 2015-11-22 in front of the Acropolis, in Athens, Greece.
(3) 2015-11-26 in Athens GREECE, in Syntagma Square in front the Parliament Building. - in between the water fountain and the Christmas Tree.
(4) 2016-05-30 Beautiful Greece & the Greek Islands from Space on a beautiful clear day. Thank you NASA.
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the Philosophy Muse - Wisdom from the ages, to enrich life.
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2016-07-09 back to 2014-12-10
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2016-07
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. Nietzsche
2,71 2,55
jul 09
To have and not give means you never truly had.
2
Jul 7
No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding. Plato
12 16
Jul 3
As you sow, so shall you reap. Cicero
10 16
Jul 1
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2016-06-
Love of truth is the basis of all real virtue, and virtues based upon lies can only do harm. Bertrand Russell
15 20
Jun 29
Will consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. Epictetus
10 16
Jun 27
He is richest who is content with what he has, little or much. Socrates
15 23
Jun 25
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is. Albert Camus
17 31
Jun 25
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had everything else in the world. Aristotle
10 16
Jun 25
Which of you, by worrying, can add a single hour to his life? Jesus
11 23
Jun 24
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. Thomas a Kempis
18 29
Jun 24
The most common form of despair is not being who you are. Soren Kierkegaard
20 36
Jun 24
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. CSL
9 13
Jun 24
He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either. Nietzsche
7 14
Jun 24
All find what they truly seek. CSL
4 7
Jun 23
Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance. Epicurus
8 15
Jun 23
The energy of the mind is the essence of life. Aristotle
11 19
Jun 22
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. Wittgenstein
5 8
Jun 22
If there is a heaven and a hell, and you died right now, where do you think you would be likely to go? And why?
2 1
Jun 22
If there is a hell, what do you think it would be like?
1 1
Jun 22
If there is a heaven, what do you think it would be like?
2
Jun 22
All the problems of heaven and earth, if they confronted us at once, would be nothing compared with that overwhelming problem of God. A.W.T.
2 5
Jun 20
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. Blaise Pascal
19 27
Jun 20
We put the thought of all that we love into all that we make. Tolkien
6 11
Jun 20
A promise can only be made about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling a certain way.
10 16
Jun 19
He who possesses little is that much less possessed. Nietzsche
12 22
Jun 19
I can show you where to dig, and what to dig for, but the digging you must do for yourself. Matisyahu
9 21
Jun 19
25 38
Jun 15
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. Descartes
23 34
Jun 12
Vanity is a subtle torturer.
4 7
Jun 12
If I have ventured wrongly, very well, life corrects me with a penalty. But if I haven't ventured at all, who can help me then? Kierkegaard
21 27
Jun 12
Love of truth is the basis of all real virtue, and virtues based upon lies can only do harm.
13 17
Jun 11
No one heals himself by wounding another. Ambrose
30 39
Jun 11
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. Francis Bacon
11 21
Jun 11
No truly great thing is created suddenly. Epictetus
12 18
Jun 10
The two greatest warriors are patience and time. Leo Tolstoy
14 23
Jun 10
When men are the most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken.
21 27
Jun 10
Why do souls exceeding long to behold the truth? Because truth is where rest is found.
10 13
Jun 9
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker. Buddha
16 26
Jun 9
Just be yourself’ is about the worst advice you can give some people. Alain De Botton
9 15
Jun 8
The one who knows what is good, and not the man who knows many things, is wise. Aeschylus
10 15
Jun 7
How I feel can't be the most important thing.
4 6
Jun 8
Every lover is a soldier. Ovid
5 9
Jun 8
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, and they demand those they do not have. Soren Kierkegaard
11 23
Jun 7
It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen. Democritus
6 11
Jun 7
He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
10 15
Jun 7
Laziness is a kind of sadness. Thomas Aquinas
10 19
Jun 7
We are twice armed if we fight with faith. Plato
12 17
Jun 7
Superstition appears to be cowardice in face of the supernatural. Theophrastus
3 5
Jun 7
The truth is a trap. You cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.
16 26
Jun 6
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
13 15
Jun 6
He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor. Ignatius
10 14
Jun 6
Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
13 15
Jun 6
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
10 17
Jun 6
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. Lao Tzu
15 24
Jun 5
No man was ever wise by chance. Seneca
14 24
Jun 5
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. Mark Twain
17 25
Jun 3
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2016-05
Many things I do not want to know. Wisdom sets limits to knowledge. Nietzsche
8 14
May 31
Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death. Chekhov
13 22
May 30
Many things I do not want to know. Wisdom sets limits to knowledge. Nietzsche
12 20
May 30
A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. Mark Twain
14 26
May 29
History never repeats itself; human beings, always. Voltaire
12 21
May 29
It is not how many books you have read, but how many books you have read well that matters. Richard Baxter
11 24
May 24
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. Nietzsche
27 33
May 24
In his errors a man is true to himself. Observe the errors and you will know the man.
17 27
May 21
The world as we have created it is a product of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. Einstein
33 46
May 21
Your Google search history is the real you.
9 10
In reply to Hooman Wisdom
May 20
Wisdom false. Only the strong have the courage to be honest.
3 5
May 19
All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Hunter S. Thompson
32 45
May 17
Beware of what is false; it is more dangerous than ignorance. George Bernard Shaw
10 14
May 17
The virtue of a man ought to be measured, not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his everyday conduct.
19 30
May 16
All men now live through too much and think through too little.
16 23
May 16
He is richest who is content with what he has, little or much. Socrates
30 43
May 12
All noble things are as difficult as they are rare. Spinoza
7 13
May 11
Philosophy is not an academic discipline, it is a lifestyle: a way of living, and a form of loving.
18 31
May 9
Beautiful is the modest mind that admits its own limitations. Augustine
12 21
May 9
To do two things at once is to do neither. Publilius Syrus
9 14
May 7
My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.
36 47
May 9
All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
12 14
May 7
We are twice armed if we fight with faith. Plato
11 20
May 7
Be not hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger lodges in the heart of fools. Ecclesiastes
11 16
May 5
Laziness is a kind of sadness. Thomas Aquinas
11 22
May 4
Are your beliefs worth believing? Philosophy Muse
6 8
May 3
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. Aristotle
14 19
May 3
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
16 17
May 1
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2016-04
The soul is healed by being around children. Dostoevsky
9 17
Apr 30
If you do the same things you've always done, you will be the same person you have always been.
14 21
Apr 29
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are. Soren Kierkegaard
16 27
Apr 29
Deceivers are themselves deceived. Augustine
9 14
Apr 28
A light heart lives long. Shakespeare
7 13
Apr 28
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. William Boetcker
10 12
Apr 27
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. G.K. Chesterton
3 8
Apr 23
You can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own. Chaim Potok
18 24
Apr 22
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal. Nietzsche
10 16
Apr 20
Life contains two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
23 32
Apr 20
The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates
11 19
Apr 19
When it is a question of money, everybody shares the same religion. Voltaire
10 13
Apr 18
The man who waits for roasted duck to fly into mouth must wait very long time. Ancient Proverb
7 11
Apr 16
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made. Kant
6 10
Apr 15
Whenever the speech is corrupted, so is the mind. Seneca
8 15
Apr 13
It is a contemptible order of things when one lives in order to eat and drink, instead of eating and drinking in order to live. Kierkegaard
10 18
Apr 12
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. Martin Luther King
9 16
Apr 12
If only humanity made its loving as frequent and as detailed as its complaining. Philip Arnold
11 15
Apr 10
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. Mark Twain
8 14
Apr 7
When one has not had a good father, one must create one. Nietzsche
5 15
Apr 6
The weak can never forgive. Gandhi
12 17
Apr 6
Honey is both bitter and sweet. Nietzsche
5 8
Apr 5
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. Robert Frost
13 21
Apr 3
Living is easy with eyes closed. John Lennon
9 13
Apr 3
When riches and virtue are placed together in the scales of the balance, the one always rises as the other falls.
22 25
Apr 1
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2016-03
What a lot of things there are a man can do without. Socrates
25 36
Mar 29
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. Descartes
27 40
Mar 28
I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now & then finding a small bright pebble to be content with. Plato
25 39
Mar 27
Beware of the person of one book. Thomas Aquinas
10 16
Mar 26
People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
20 25
Mar 27
Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few. David Hume
12 16
Mar 26
10 26
Mar 26
To be that self which one truly is, is indeed the opposite of despair.
6 9
Mar 25
25 41
Mar 25
There is a love that blazes up and is forgotten, then there is a love until death. Soren Kierkegaard
9 20
Mar 25
Much learning does not teach understanding. Heraclitus
13 19
Mar 23
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. Oliver Wendell Holmes
8 14
Mar 23
It is always easier to be someone else.
6 11
Mar 23
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
5 8
Mar 22
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. Epictetus
24 30
Mar 22
Some philosophical musings on Apple's latest iOS 9.3: http://philosophyblog.net/technology-and-sleep/ …
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Feb 1
I’m deliberately abandoning the enterprise of making sense of myself. Francis Spufford
4 7
Mar 21
How much better to get wisdom rather than gold! Proverbs
2 5
Mar 20
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Marcus Aurelius
12 17
Mar 20
Better is a handful of quietness than two hands full of toil and striving after the wind. Ecclesiastes
2 6
Mar 20
People suppose that because it is easy to act unjustly, it is therefore easy to be just; but this is not so. Aristotle
4 8
Mar 20
A man is as miserable as he thinks he is. Seneca
8 14
Mar 20
Thinking is easy. Acting is hard. But acting in accordance with your thinking is the hardest thing in the world. Johann von Goethe
17 29
Mar 20
In most cases, if it's not good for you, destroy it.
4 7
Mar 20
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation that give you happiness. Thomas Jefferson
7 12
Mar 20
Whatever an enemy can do to an enemy, or a for to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to itself, and even worse. Buddha
3 8
Mar 20
He is richest who is content with what he has, little or much. Socrates
8 14
Mar 9
All men now live through too much and think through too little. Nietzsche
11 15
Mar 8
Whatever an enemy can do to an enemy, or a for to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to itself, and even worse. Buddha
6 11
Mar 5
The most common form of despair is not being who you are. Soren Kierkegaard
17 24
Mar 4
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2016-02
Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few. David Hume
14 16
Feb 17
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, and they demand those they do not have. Soren Kierkegaard
12 16
Feb 7
Just as one bird does not make a flock, nor one day a season, so one action or a short time cannot make us happy. Aristotle
17 30
Feb 1
Against boredom even gods struggle in vain. Nietzsche
7 13
Feb 1
Esse quam videri. To be rather than to seem.
11 16
Feb 1
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2016-01
Doubt your doubts.
16 14
Jan 31
If you wish to improve your life, you must be prepared to sacrifice it. Leo Tolstoy
16 28
Jan 31
The saddest form of condescension is born from insecurity.
4 8
Jan 24
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had everything else in the world. Aristotle
14 19
Jan 24
A well-spent day brings happy sleep. Leonardo da Vinci
12 19
Jan 18
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice. Martin Luther King
13 19
Jan 14
A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for. Marcus Aurelius
14 20
Jan 10
Who are the true philosophers? Those whose passion is to love the truth. Plato
17 28
Jan 7
2016-01-01
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2015-12
No man was ever wise by chance. Seneca
20 30
26 Dec 2015
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. Desiderius Erasmus
8 12
26 Dec 2015
Man has no other reason for philosophizing than that he may be happy.
8 13
25 Dec 2015
Tolerance is a cheap, low-grade parody of love. Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and harder. N. T. Wright
18 27
25 Dec 2015
The virtue of a man ought to be measured, not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his everyday conduct. Blaise Pascal
13 20
25 Dec 2015
Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death. Chekhov
15 22
24 Dec 2015
Rather than love, rather than money, rather than fame, give me truth. Henry David Thoreau
12 21
24 Dec 2015
The reason why we have bad authors is that bad readers need them. Nietzsche
10 19
24 Dec 2015
When virtue is the slave of pleasure it no longer deserves the name of virtue. Augustine
7 13
24 Dec 2015
Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead. Plotinus
11 15
24 Dec 2015
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery. Bertrand Russell
10 17
23 Dec 2015
It is only the benevolent man who is capable of liking or disliking other men. Confucius
2 4
23 Dec 2015
Many things I do not want to know. Wisdom sets limits to knowledge. Nietzsche
7 15
23 Dec 2015
In his errors a man is true to himself. Observe the errors and you will know the man. Confucius
17 23
23 Dec 2015
He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough. Lao-tzu
13 19
22 Dec 2015
Work, not leisure, is the indispensable condition of happiness for every human being. Leo Tolstoy
6 10
24 Nov 2015
No man is free who is not master of himself. Epictetus
30 33
20 Dec 2015
And the greatest sickness is narcissism.
8 10
21 Dec 2015
All men now live through too much and think through too little. Nietzsche
11 18
21 Dec 2015
Whatever an enemy can do to an enemy, or a for to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to itself, and even worse. Buddha
6 9
21 Dec 2015
The truth is a trap: you can not get it without it getting you. Kierkegaard
7 11
20 Dec 2015
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. Blaise Pascal
12 17
20 Dec 2015
Only one infinite deception is possible: self-deception. Kierkegaard
8 11
16 Dec 2015
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. Jonathan Swift
14 19
14 Dec 2015
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. Socrates
14 19
10 Dec 2015
A friend to all is a friend to none. Aristotle
15 23
2 Dec 2015
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2015-11
No man is free who is not master of himself. Epictetus
14 16
30 Nov 2015
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Leonardo DaVinci
17 25
27 Nov 2015
Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself. Epictetus
12 17
26 Nov 2015
Wisdom outweighs any wealth. Sophocles
10 15
24 Nov 2015
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
24 36
24 Nov 2015
Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. Voltaire
13 17
22 Nov 2015
It is better to give than to receive. Jesus
5 13
22 Nov 2015
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way. Simone de Beauvoir
7 10
15 Nov 2015
Work, not leisure, is the indispensable condition of happiness for every human being. Leo Tolstoy
9 12
14 Nov 2015
Above all, do not lie to yourself. Dostoyevsky
23 32
14 Nov 2015
Many things I do not want to know. Wisdom sets limits to knowledge. Nietzsche
10 15
13 Nov 2015
Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead. Plotinus
10 11
13 Nov 2015
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. Blaise Pascal
7 10
12 Nov 2015
A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. Mark Twain
13 22
12 Nov 2015
How much there is in the world I do not want. Socrates
6 10
12 Nov 2015
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. Blaise Pascal
18 20
12 Nov 2015
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery. Bertrand Russell
9 14
11 Nov 2015
Beware of what is false; it is more dangerous than ignorance. George Bernard Shaw
10 11
11 Nov 2015
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. Lao Tzu
9 13
11 Nov 2015
It is only the benevolent man who is capable of liking or disliking other men. Confucius
2 3
11 Nov 2015
All men now live through too much and think through too little. Nietzsche
9 13
10 Nov 2015
What's wrong with the world? I am. G. K. Chesterton
3 5
2 Nov 2015
A friend to all is a friend to none. Aristotle
13 20
2 Nov 2015
Art is the proper task of life. Nietzsche
11 13
1 Nov 2015
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2015-10
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle
22 27
26 Oct 2015
What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism. G. K. Chesterton
9 9
24 Oct 2015
Fame is charming and very persuasive, but it always goes away. Why would you want to get involved with something that goes away? Adele
5 8
24 Oct 2015
Fame is not real. And I don’t want to live a fake life. Adele
6 9
19 Oct 2015
No one can be happy without wisdom. Augustine
10 15
16 Oct 2015
The truth is a trap. You cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you. Soren K
10 13
8 Oct 2015
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2015-09
In the last analysis, even the best man is evil. Nietzsche
9 11
30 Sep 2015
The best revenge is to be unlike the one who performed the injustice. Marcus Aurelius
22 24
26 Sep 2015
All men now live through too much and think through too little. Nietzsche
16 19
21 Sep 2015
Look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; look for comfort & you will not get comfort or truth, only soft soap & wishful thinking. CL
10 10
20 Sep 2015
Make not the night joint laborer with the day. Shakespeare
2 2
18 Sep 2015
Let him that would move the world first move himself. Socrates
13 16
18 Sep 2015
The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth." And so it goes away, puzzled. Robert Pirsig
8 11
17 Sep 2015
He who does not desire power is fit to hold it. Plato
19 27
17 Sep 2015
Art is never finished, only abandoned. Leonardo da Vinci
15 21
17 Sep 2015
People suppose that because it is easy to act unjustly, it is therefore easy to be just; but this is not so. Aristotle
7 7
16 Sep 2015
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company. Sartre
27 33
16 Sep 2015
Beautiful is the modest mind that admits its own limitations. Augustine
11 16
16 Sep 2015
Honest people don't hide their deeds. Bronte
6 8
16 Sep 2015
This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs: when he first appears he is a protector. Plato
7 8
15 Sep 2015
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? John Wooden
11 14
15 Sep 2015
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. Thomas Aquinas
10 14
15 Sep 2015
He who is always talking will find it difficult to make his words good. Confucius
5 9
15 Sep 2015
Above all, do not lie to yourself. Dostoyevsky
17 21
15 Sep 2015
How happy we are, we finders of knowledge, provided we know how to keep silent sufficiently long. Nietzsche
4 5
15 Sep 2015
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. Socrates
17 19
15 Sep 2015
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed. Blaise Pascal
9 12
15 Sep 2015
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Kant
10 14
14 Sep 2015
You become what you understand. Soren Kierkegaard
12 20
14 Sep 2015
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal. Nietzsche
7 9
14 Sep 2015
Virtue consists more in doing good than refraining from evil. Aristotle
8 10
14 Sep 2015
If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked. Epictetus
6 11
14 Sep 2015
Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few. David Hume
11 13
14 Sep 2015
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. Confucius
10 14
13 Sep 2015
Tolerance is a cheap, low-grade parody of love. Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and harder. N. T. Wright
9 14
13 Sep 2015
Eliminate distractions.
7 9
13 Sep 2015
Whatever you do, all in.
7 8
13 Sep 2015
A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a shortcut to meet it. Tolkien
8 12
13 Sep 2015
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. Desiderius Erasmus
4 6
13 Sep 2015
The time is always right to do what is right. Martin Luther King Jr.
8 12
13 Sep 2015
It is not the truth that people cannot handle. It is the consequences that stem from that truth. J.K. Miller
10 12
12 Sep 2015
We shouldn't regard anyone as a lover of knowledge or wisdom who complains about what he studies. Plato
8 11
12 Sep 2015
Don't criticize what you can't understand. Bob Dylan
12 15
12 Sep 2015
Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage. Confucius
5 6
12 Sep 2015
First, learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak. Epictetus
11 11
12 Sep 2015
He that does good to another does good also to himself. Seneca
9 9
12 Sep 2015
Where men are the most sure and arrogant, there they are commonly the most mistaken. David Hume
8 10
11 Sep 2015
Major news networks do not report the news, they interpret it.
7 9
11 Sep 2015
Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves? Nietzsche
6 8
11 Sep 2015
Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed. Epictetus
3 4
11 Sep 2015
Beware of the barrenness of a busy life. Socrates
8 10
11 Sep 2015
It takes a certain lack of imagination to have an entirely clean conscience. Alain de Botton
7 8
10 Sep 2015
The real world is much smaller than the world of our imagination. Nietzsche
5 7
10 Sep 2015
Doubt is uncomfortable, but certainty is ridiculous. Voltaire
18 22
9 Sep 2015
It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. E.E. Cummings
8 10
9 Sep 2015
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something in your life. Winston Churchill
10 12
9 Sep 2015
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. Joseph Conrad
12 16
9 Sep 2015
All men will see what you seem to be; only a few will know who you are. Machiavelli
15 21
8 Sep 2015
The one glimpse of paradise on earth is to fight in a losing cause...and not to lose it. G.K. Chesterton
4 6
8 Sep 2015
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. Mark Twain
11 14
7 Sep 2015
In his errors a man is true to himself. Observe the errors and you will know the man. Confucius
12 14
7 Sep 2015
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. Confucius
8 10
If love is a movement of the heart, an exercise of the passions, then you can’t choose to love as an act of your will. Is that right?
2 2
7 Sep 2015
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
11 12
7 Sep 2015
We are not even authorities on ourselves.
3 3
7 Sep 2015
How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. Einstein
5 7
6 Sep 2015
Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation. Abraham Lincoln
7 11
6 Sep 2015
To see and listen to the wicked is the beginning of wickedness. Confucius
4 6
5 Sep 2015
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. Emerson
18 21
5 Sep 2015
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Emerson
14 18
3 Sep 2015
What do we gain from all our stress?
7 6
3 Sep 2015
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. Augustine
9 11
2 Sep 2015
Busy people are never too busy to complain about their busyness.
7 9
2 Sep 2015
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. Rousseau
10 10
2 Sep 2015
Man is simply a being in search of meaning. Plato
13 14
2 Sep 2015
Though we love the truth and our friends, reverence is due to the truth above our friends. Aristotle
4 4
1 Sep 2015
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. Harper Lee
4 6
1 Sep 2015
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2015-08
Love is not consolation. It is light. Nietzsche
6 8
31 Aug 2015
This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves. Nietzsche
4 7
31 Aug 2015
To see what is right and not to do it is to lack courage. Confucius
10 11
31 Aug 2015
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. Blaise Pascal
10 15
31 Aug 2015
In his errors a man is true to his nature. Observe the errors and you will know the man. Confucius
12 15
29 Aug 2015
We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.
10 10
30 Aug 2015
3 6
Once at the library, I put a non fiction book in the reference section. What a time to be alive.
28 40
18 Jun 2015
If death was the end of all, the wicked would have a good bargain in dying. Socrates
26 31
30 Aug 2015
A promise can only be made about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling a certain way. C. S. Lewis
8 11
30 Aug 2015
I like to end most debates by saying, "If it weren't for facts and common sense, I would totally agree with you."
19 25
30 Aug 2015
What do you think about this? Right, wrong? Misguided? Missing something?
1 1
30 Aug 2015
It is only the benevolent man who is capable of liking or disliking other men. Confucius
1 3
30 Aug 2015
Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead. Plotinus
6 8
30 Aug 2015
Beautiful is the modest mind that admits its own limitations.
8 11
29 Aug 2015
As sight is to body, so understanding is to soul. Aristotle
8 10
29 Aug 2015
All the gold on the earth is not enough to exchange for virtue. Plato
6 8
29 Aug 2015
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. John Locke
8 10
29 Aug 2015
There would be more real laughter if there were more real tears. John Piper
5 7
29 Aug 2015
No man should be proud of his wealth, except in how he employs it for good. Socrates
10 11
29 Aug 2015
Freedom is not doing whatever we want, but really wanting to do what we should. Jung
8 11
29 Aug 2015
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. Michel de Montaigne
4 5
29 Aug 2015
To the addict, whose palate has been destroyed, substance gives no pleasure except the relief from the terrible craving. C.S. Lewis
5 9
29 Aug 2015
A fool can know. The point is to understand. Albert Einstein
15 18
28 Aug 2015
The words here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. Augustine
7 10
28 Aug 2015
Vice seems fairly evenly distributed. @EveKeneinan
1
28 Aug 2015
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. Lao Tzu
8 8
28 Aug 2015
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. William Boetcker
5 6
28 Aug 2015
Close your eyes to see more clearly.
8 11
28 Aug 2015
For greed, the entire world is too little. Seneca
5 7
28 Aug 2015
If you find the truth, will you believe it?
11 11
28 Aug 2015
It is possible to waste so much time you aren't sure what to do with what remains.
4 5
28 Aug 2015
If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother. Epictetus
5 8
27 Aug 2015
Who are the true philosophers? Those whose passion is to love the truth. Plato
8 11
27 Aug 2015
Lord, grant that I can always desire more than I can accomplish. Michelangelo
6 9
20 Jul 2015
True riches are riches of the mind and heart.
5 7
5 Aug 2015
Everyone is right-wing about the things they think they know.
3 3
27 Aug 2015
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. Mark Twain
13 15
27 Aug 2015
Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing. Pissarro
12 16
27 Aug 2015
Philosophy is a form of love, for what is philosophy if not the love of wisdom?
6 8
27 Aug 2015
The things that we love tell us what we are. Thomas Aquinas
11 12
27 Aug 2015
He who is not contented with what he has, will not be contented with what he would like to have. Socrates
11 13
19 Aug 2015
Before you begin a journey of revenge, dig two graves. Confucius
14 21
19 Aug 2015
Privacy just died.
4 3
19 Aug 2015
What we think, we become. Buddha
9 13
10 Aug 2015
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. Friedrich Nietzsche
18 24
9 Aug 2015
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive. Einstein
12 15
9 Aug 2015
Conceit is incompatible with understanding. Leo Tolstoy
5 6
8 Aug 2015
Rather than love, rather than money, rather than fame, give me truth. Henry David Thoreau
11 15
8 Aug 2015
Whatever an enemy can do to an enemy, or a for to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to itself, and even worse. Buddha
5 8
7 Aug 2015
He who loves to govern, rather than to do good, is no true governor. Augustine
16 16
7 Aug 2015
He is richest who is content with what he has, little or much. Socrates
12 13
7 Aug 2015
The most manifest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness. Montaigne
7 9
7 Aug 2015
Love of truth is the basis of all real virtue, and virtues based upon lies can only do harm. Bertrand Russell
6 7
6 Aug 2015
He who possesses little is that much less possessed. Nietzsche
8 12
6 Aug 2015
Biggest takeaway from the #GOPDebate: people don't change. Perry and Santorum sound the EXACT same as they did 4 years ago.
1 1
6 Aug 2015
Man is born free, but everywhere is in chains. Rousseau
9 12
5 Aug 2015
True friends stab you in the front. Oscar Wilde
15 23
5 Aug 2015
"Why does philosophy matter?"
"I don't know, why does science matter?"
"Well bc scie-"
"Annnnnnd you are doing philosophy."
@existentialcoms
10 15
5 Aug 2015
What reason do we have to pursue philosophy except to be happy? Augustine
5 5
1 Aug 2015
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2015-07
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. Einstein
15 16
27 Jul 2015
Night does not cover our troubles, it brings them to the mind. Seneca
12 14
27 Jul 2015
It's scariest to think people believe what they say.
17 19
27 Jul 2015
He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either. Nietzsche
6 10
27 Jul 2015
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Thomas Merton
17 24
27 Jul 2015
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. Thomas Merton
9 11
26 Jul 2015
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour does the body. Seneca
9 12
26 Jul 2015
The most common form of despair is not being who you are. Soren Kierkegaard
15 19
25 Jul 2015
16 20
25 Jul 2015
We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty. G.K. Chesterton
11 13
25 Jul 2015
Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one. Voltaire
11 17
23 Jul 2015
It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom. David Hume
6 8
23 Jul 2015
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education. Bertrand Russell
26 27
22 Jul 2015
Two Questions
1. If your spouse was cheating on you, would you want to know?
2. Should the hackers release Ashley Madison user information?
2 3
22 Jul 2015
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. Seneca
8 11
21 Jul 2015
I close my eyes to see more clearly.
5 6
21 Jul 2015
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself. Montaigne
6 10
20 Jul 2015
Do not pursue arguing. Pursue understanding.
14 15
20 Jul 2015
Learned we may be with another man's learning, but we can only be wise with wisdom of our own. Montaigne
6 7
20 Jul 2015
To do nothing is the way to be nothing. Nathaniel Hawthorne
8 7
19 Jul 2015
There is nothing good or evil except in the will. Epictetus
4 5
19 Jul 2015
Doubt is the origin of wisdom. René Descartes
11 12
19 Jul 2015
Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books. Descartes
3 6
18 Jul 2015
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. Pericles
13 14
17 Jul 2015
It is man’s natural sickness to believe that he always possesses the truth. Blaise Pascal
12 13
1 Jun 2015
I don't even know that I know nothing.
16 16
16 Jul 2015
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. Jonathan Swift
8 10
16 Jul 2015
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance, the only thing it cannot be is moderately important. CSL
5 9
16 Jul 2015
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit. Baltasar Gracián
5 6
15 Jul 2015
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. Aristotle
5 6
14 Jul 2015
Hunger not to have, but to be. John Dewey
6 8
14 Jul 2015
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies. Albert Camus
11 16
14 Jul 2015
Peace if possible, truth at all costs. Martin Luther
8 10
14 Jul 2015
Judge of a tree by its fruit, not by its leaves. Periander of Corinth
3 5
13 Jul 2015
The only way of truly knowing a person is to love them without hope. Walter Benjamin
7 11
13 Jul 2015
There is nothing more necessary than truth, in comparison with it, everything else has only secondary value.
12 14
13 Jul 2015
When virtue is the slave of pleasure it no longer deserves the name of virtue. Augustine
5 9
13 Jul 2015
Even on the most exalted throne in the world, we are only sitting on our own bottom. Montaigne
5 6
12 Jul 2015
The most common lies are the ones we tell ourselves. Lying to others is relatively an exception. Nietzsche
14 16
12 Jul 2015
Art is the proper task of life. Nietzsche
9 12
12 Jul 2015
Some throw a bit of their personality after their bad arguments, as if that might turn them into right arguments. Nietzsche
4 7
12 Jul 2015
He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. Nietzsche
16 26
12 Jul 2015
For the mediocre, happiness lies in being mediocre. Nietzsche
12 15
12 Jul 2015
Your body hears everything your mind says. Naomi Judd
5 9
12 Jul 2015
When the debate is over, slander becomes the tool of the loser. Socrates
10 15
12 Jul 2015
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. Aristotle
8 12
11 Jul 2015
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being. Rousseau
6 7
11 Jul 2015
Without the freedom to offend, freedom of speech is meaningless. Salman Rushdie
10 13
11 Jul 2015
I prefer nothing, unless it is true. Plato
12 12
11 Jul 2015
Man has no other reason for philosophizing than that he may be happy.
8 12
11 Jul 2015
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods. Plato
4 6
11 Jul 2015
You can be sincere and still be stupid. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
8 10
10 Jul 2015
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. Descartes
11 16
10 Jul 2015
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2015-06
Critique implies a standard. C. S. Lewis
4 5
29 Jun 2015
Patience is the companion of wisdom. Augustine
11 12
27 Jun 2015
Man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make his happiness impossible. Augustine
10 11
22 Jun 2015
Be as you wish to seem. Socrates
12 15
22 Jun 2015
35 41
22 Jun 2015
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed. Blaise Pascal
9 10
22 Jun 2015
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge. Alfred North Whitehead
10 13
21 Jun 2015
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. Bertrand Russell
7 10
21 Jun 2015
When pain is to be borne, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage. CSL
4 5
27 May 2015
“Being persuaded that something is true is not the same as seeing the beauty and worth of the truth.”
8 9
27 Apr 2015
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
40 43
20 Jun 2015
Ask any question you like, just don't ask me for reasons.
8 8
21 Jun 2015
True wisdom is the skill and practice of death. Socrates, before he drank the hemlock.
2 4
20 Jun 2015
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. Mark Twain
12 15
20 Jun 2015
Desire is more sophistical than all. Kierkegaard
4 5
18 Jun 2015
Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death. Chekhov
12 15
18 Jun 2015
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSL
6 6
18 Jun 2015
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. C. S. Lewis
13 13
7 Jun 2015
Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps, or to awaken one who, while awake, dreams that he is awake? Soren Kierkegaard
15 16
7 Jun 2015
You realize your true nature at the moment of death. Itachi
7 11
4 Jun 2015
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2015-05
If the highest aim of a captain was the preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. Thomas Aquinas
13 14
30 May 2015
When you come to a fork in the road, take it. Yogi Berra
5 5
26 May 2015
Honesty is difficult. It is easier to hide in the crowed, and to drown one's own guilt in the guilt of everyone else. Kierkegaard
12 12
26 May 2015
All men must die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. 2 Samuel 14:14
5 7
24 May 2015
A friend to all is a friend to none. Aristotle
19 26
23 May 2015
Memorial Day.
11 17
22 May 2015
What if truth is like a woman - what then? Nietzsche
7 7
22 May 2015
Nothing a man can do will last.
7 5
18 May 2015
He who is not contented with what he has, will not be contented with what he would like to have. Socrates
19 19
5 May 2015
The virtue of a man ought to be measured, not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his everyday conduct. Blaise Pascal
12 12
2 May 2015
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2015-04
Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its life believing that it is stupid. Einstein
30 25
28 Apr 2015
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. Marcus Tullius Cicero
13 11
29 Apr 2015
Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating. Don Miller
11 12
28 Apr 2015
The wise are not too busy.
8 9
27 Apr 2015
Well done is better than well said. Benjamin Franklin
16 18
27 Apr 2015
If sex wasn't in our face all day, we might make better use of it.
8 12
27 Apr 2015
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. Schopenhauer
13 14
27 Apr 2015
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed. Montesquieu
7 7
26 Apr 2015
Words are easy, like the wind, but a faithful friend is hard to find. Shakespeare
13 12
26 Apr 2015
Philosophy is a form of love, for what is philosophy if not the love of wisdom?
11 13
26 Apr 2015
Few look for truth; many prowl about for a reputation of profundity by arrogantly challenging whichever arguments seem best. Descartes
11 12
26 Apr 2015
No truly great thing is created suddenly. Epictetus
12 13
25 Apr 2015
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. Albert Camus
14 13
25 Apr 2015
Character is the most effective means of persuasion. Aristotle
10 12
25 Apr 2015
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it. John Lubbock
8 9
25 Apr 2015
The less men think, the more they talk. Montesquieu
16 16
25 Apr 2015
We are always in our own company. Nietzsche
9 9
24 Apr 2015
Not life, but good life, is to be valued above all else. Socrates
9 7
24 Apr 2015
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18. Einstein
9 10
23 Apr 2015
To love another person is to see the face of God. Victor Hugo
8 10
19 Apr 2015
True greatness is measured in years and decades.
5 4
15 Apr 2015
Wealth cannot be what we want, for it serves only as a means of getting something else. Aristotle
12 12
14 Apr 2015
A calm sea does not make a skilled sailor.
23 24
11 Apr 2015
To study and not think is wasteful. To think and not study is dangerous. Confucius
23 25
10 Apr 2015
Tolerance is a cheap, low-grade parody of love. Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and harder. N. T. Wright
16 12
5 Apr 2015
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. Descartes
23 26
5 Apr 2015
Conventionality is not morality. Bronte
11 10
5 Apr 2015
Peace if possible, truth at all costs. Martin Luther
13 14
4 Apr 2015
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty. David Hume
6 5
4 Apr 2015
In most cases, if it's not good for you, destroy it.
10 10
4 Apr 2015
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are. Soren Kierkegaard
12 11
3 Apr 2015
The things that we love tell us what we are. Aquinas
17 19
3 Apr 2015
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind. William Shakespeare
15 14
3 Apr 2015
Deceivers are themselves deceived. Augustine
9 6
3 Apr 2015
Intentions do not produce results.
16 17
3 Apr 2015
Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most. Buddha
14 16
2 Apr 2015
Education is the best provision for the journey to old age. Aristotle
8 9
2 Apr 2015
The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. Cicero
6 3
2 Apr 2015
Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains. Rousseau
10 11
2 Apr 2015
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are. Thomas Carlyle
11 12
1 Apr 2015
We're always worrying about how good the next generation will be at science; rarely about how good it will be at marriage. Alain De Botton
9 8
1 Apr 2015
Happiest is not found in amusement. Aristotle
8 7
1 Apr 2015
The ability to deceive seems to indicate cleverness, but the desire and will to deceive indicate weakness. Descartes
13 12
1 Apr 2015
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2015-03
People suppose that because it is easy to act unjustly, it is therefore easy to be just; but this is not so. Aristotle
8 7
31 Mar 2015
The greatest distraction of our age is that we have made distraction normal.
11 11
31 Mar 2015
Sometimes, even to live is an act of courage. Seneca
12 13
31 Mar 2015
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. Lao Tzu
10 10
31 Mar 2015
Control thy desires, lest they control thee. Epictetus
8 8
30 Mar 2015
When one has not had a good father, one must create one. Nietzsche
6 6
30 Mar 2015
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. Mark Twain
9 11
30 Mar 2015
Wisdom is not words.
7 8
30 Mar 2015
Who buys a minute's joy to wail a week? Or sells eternity to get a toy? For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy? Shakespeare
7 6
30 Mar 2015
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company. Sartre
17 20
29 Mar 2015
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. Aristotle
13 14
29 Mar 2015
Love costs much, and cannot not exist without sacrifice.
9 7
29 Mar 2015
Some philosophy is nothing more than trivial quibbling over matters sufficiently settled by common sense. Other philosophy is life or death.
8 8
29 Mar 2015
If only humanity made its loving as frequent and as detailed as its complaining. Philip Arnold
10 10
29 Mar 2015
Sometimes there is all the difference in the world between reasons for a believe, and causes of a belief.
6 4
28 Mar 2015
Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise. Lin Yutang
8 8
28 Mar 2015
If you wish to improve your life, you must be prepared to sacrifice it. Leo Tolstoy
14 14
28 Mar 2015
How much different would the world be if we read even half if the books be buy?
5 6
28 Mar 2015
All find what they truly seek. CSL
6 6
27 Mar 2015
Though we love the truth and our friends, reverence is due to the truth above our friends. Aristotle
4 3
27 Mar 2015
America is the greatest of opportunities, and the worst of influences. George Santayana
4 5
27 Mar 2015
Wherever you are, be there.
13 13
27 Mar 2015
Be as you wish to seem. Socrates
10 12
26 Mar 2015
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Emerson
13 14
26 Mar 2015
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. Socrates
18 15
26 Mar 2015
We shouldn't regard anyone as a lover of knowledge or wisdom who complains about what he studies. Plato
5 5
26 Mar 2015
The virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so. Plato
5 7
25 Mar 2015
I am fundamentally uncertain about life, but the thought that there may be something more than what we can see has never left me. C. Wilder
8 10
25 Mar 2015
A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind. Robert Oxton
9 9
25 Mar 2015
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion. T.S. Elliot
5 6
25 Mar 2015
How good is good enough? More importantly, what if that is the wrong question?
7 5
25 Mar 2015
Education is not as expensive as ignorance. Derek Bok
10 9
24 Mar 2015
Everyone expects death, but when it comes, it is always different than expected.
7 7
24 Mar 2015
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. Robert Frost
14 13
23 Mar 2015
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. Jong
11 11
23 Mar 2015
Truth can never be at odds with truth. Spinoza
6 5
23 Mar 2015
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? John Wooden
10 10
22 Mar 2015
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. George Orwell
12 10
22 Mar 2015
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker. Buddha
11 14
22 Mar 2015
Some people avoid thinking because they fear the conclusions to which it may lead.
18 22
22 Mar 2015
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Gandhi
11 12
21 Mar 2015
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. Socrates
8 10
21 Mar 2015
You are small:
12 16
21 Mar 2015
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. Oscar Wilde
9 9
21 Mar 2015
A sudden, bold, and unexpected question can many times surprise a man, and even lay him open. Francis Bacon
5 4
21 Mar 2015
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. Mark Twain
9 13
20 Mar 2015
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. Lao Tzu
8 9
20 Mar 2015
Life is half spent before we know what it is. George Herbert
12 11
20 Mar 2015
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made. Kant
5 5
20 Mar 2015
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. Aristotle
7 5
20 Mar 2015
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. Lao Tzu
9 8
19 Mar 2015
The world as we have created it is a product of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. Einstein
15 14
19 Mar 2015
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. Robert A. Heinlein
9 9
19 Mar 2015
Difficulties are things that show a person what they are. Epictetus
8 9
18 Mar 2015
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. Desiderius Erasmus
5 5
18 Mar 2015
There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly. Galileo
8 7
18 Mar 2015
If the highest aim of a captain was the preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. Thomas Aquinas
9 10
18 Mar 2015
Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and harder. N. T. Wright
7 9
17 Mar 2015
Being just a critic is a poor thing at best. Robert Heinlein
5 5
17 Mar 2015
A light heart lives long. Shakespeare
8 9
17 Mar 2015
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past. Spinoza
8 9
17 Mar 2015
Trying to please everyone is a sure way to please no one.
9 7
16 Mar 2015
Political correctness is dangerous. Benjamin Carson
6 5
16 Mar 2015
We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty. G.K. Chesterton
10 10
16 Mar 2015
Character is determined by choice, not opinion. Aristotle
10 10
16 Mar 2015
There is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth. Leibniz
6 6
15 Mar 2015
Cowards die many times before their deaths. Julius Caesar
13 13
15 Mar 2015
If you expect deep, personal change to be quick, expect to be disappointed.
10 11
15 Mar 2015
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. Plutarch
10 12
14 Mar 2015
Rare is the union of beauty and purity. Juvenal.
6 8
14 Mar 2015
All noble things are as difficult as they are rare. Spinoza
6 7
14 Mar 2015
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility. Shakespeare
4 3
14 Mar 2015
To be loving means to presuppose love. Kierkegaard
5 4
13 Mar 2015
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. John Locke
10 11
13 Mar 2015
He who is not contented with what he has, will not be contented with what he would like to have. Socrates
13 12
13 Mar 2015
Beware of the person of one book. Thomas Aquinas
6 7
13 Mar 2015
Major news networks do not report the news, they interpret it.
6 5
13 Mar 2015
He is richest who is content with what he has, little or much. Socrates
11 11
12 Mar 2015
The things that we love tell us what we are. Thomas Aquinas
14 15
12 Mar 2015
The best revenge is to be unlike the one who performed the injustice. Marcus Aurelius
10 14
12 Mar 2015
The desire to deceive indicates weakness. Descartes
8 8
12 Mar 2015
You have just been distracted.
7 5
11 Mar 2015
The only frustrating thing about happiness is it's ubiquitous elusiveness.
6 6
11 Mar 2015
Do not spoil the wonder with haste. Tolkien
11 12
11 Mar 2015
How much better to get wisdom rather than gold! Proverbs
5 3
11 Mar 2015
Silence is the virtue of fools. Frances Bacon
4 4
10 Mar 2015
It is a contemptible order of things when one lives in order to eat and drink, instead of eating and drinking in order to live. Kierkegaard
6 9
7 Mar 2015
Excessive productivity can bring the most gifted man almost to madness. Nietzsche
10 11
6 Mar 2015
Hasten slowly. Augustus
4 4
2 Mar 2015
Whatever an enemy can do to an enemy, or a for to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to itself, and even worse. Buddha
8 7
2 Mar 2015
The virtue of a man ought to be measured, not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his everyday conduct. Blaise Pascal
10 10
1 Mar 2015
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2015-02
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. Bertrand Russell
10 11
28 Feb 2015
Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills. Confucius
8 11
28 Feb 2015
The less open-minded someone is, the more open-mouthed they tend to be. Nicole Azavedo
19 17
26 Feb 2015
Bewilderment is true comprehension. Martin Luther
5 5
23 Feb 2015
Beware of the barrenness of a busy life. Socrates
12 12
21 Feb 2015
Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. William James
16 20
15 Feb 2015
Nearly all men stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. Abraham Lincoln #PresidentsDay
17 17
14 Feb 2015
The great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' - a thing must be loved before it is lovable. G.K. Chesterton
26 37
4 Feb 2015
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half. Fyodor Dostoevsky
12 15
4 Feb 2015
First we raise a dust, and then complain we cannot see. George Berkeley
9 8
3 Feb 2015
Honesty is difficult. It is easier to hide in the crowed, and to drown one's own guilt in the guilt of everyone else. Kierkegaard
11 14
3 Feb 2015
Do not be overly righteous. Ecclesiastes
5 6
3 Feb 2015
Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me. Immanuel Kant
11 14
3 Feb 2015
Sleep, for what do I trade thee?
9 7
2 Feb 2015
The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it. Rousseau
4 6
2 Feb 2015
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. Albert Camus
7 9
2 Feb 2015
To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing. Aristotle
23 22
2 Feb 2015
Learning occurs where confusion meets interest. G.G.
9 10
2 Feb 2015
If you are ruled by your mind, you are a king, if by your body, a slave. Cato.
16 16
1 Feb 2015
Love is too young to know what conscience is. Shakespeare
6 7
1 Feb 2015
You can't fake humility.
9 10
1 Feb 2015
It is one thing to show a man that he is in error; it is another to make him see the truth. John Locke
11 11
1 Feb 2015
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2015-01
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out. Winston Churchill
13 14
31 Jan 2015
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. Mark Twain
6 9
31 Jan 2015
The whole is more than the sum of the parts. Aristotle
6 9
31 Jan 2015
Above all do not forget your duty to love yourself. Kierkegaard
11 14
31 Jan 2015
We live in our desires rather than in our achievements. George Moore
6 6
30 Jan 2015
You are as fit and healthy as you decide to be.
5 8
30 Jan 2015
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. Jonathan Swift
8 9
30 Jan 2015
Never to talk of oneself is a form of hypocrisy. Nietzsche
5 4
30 Jan 2015
It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity. David Hume
3 5
29 Jan 2015
Every person thinks his mind more clever and more learned than it is. Maimonides
7 9
29 Jan 2015
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. Nietzsche
5 10
29 Jan 2015
Nothing looks more ugly than reason when it is not on our side. George Savile
5 6
29 Jan 2015
Any man may do evil, but not every man knows what is good. Plato
6 7
28 Jan 2015
Men's natures are alike, it is their habits that make them different. Confucius
5 7
28 Jan 2015
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. Mark Twain
12 13
28 Jan 2015
How far a little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world. Shakespeare
7 8
28 Jan 2015
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus
6 7
27 Jan 2015
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. Aristotle
8 10
27 Jan 2015
Purity of heart is to will one thing. Soren Kierkegaard
3 4
27 Jan 2015
Honest people don't hide their deeds. Bronte
6 5
27 Jan 2015
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. John Locke
6 8
26 Jan 2015
Whether or not God exists, I find myself searching for him.
6 16
26 Jan 2015
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. Sartre
9 9
26 Jan 2015
We are more inclined to reply to arguments that oppose our error than to see how happy would be our condition if we were free from error. AA
2 3
26 Jan 2015
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice. William James
3 8
26 Jan 2015
To dare is to lose one's footing. Not to dare is to lose oneself. Soren Kierkegaard
9 10
25 Jan 2015
The power of man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doings. Blaise Pascal
7 7
25 Jan 2015
A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones. Proverbs
6 9
25 Jan 2015
Arguments, like men, are often pretenders. Socrates
5 6
25 Jan 2015
We are wrong to disown history, as though our sins and errors will not burden later generations. M. Robinson
4 6
24 Jan 2015
When our opinions become fixed is the point where we stop thinking. Renan
8 13
24 Jan 2015
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. Benjamin Franklin
13 14
24 Jan 2015
Fatigue is the best pillow. Benjamin Franklin
5 8
24 Jan 2015
Order is power. Frederic Amiel
3 3
23 Jan 2015
In philosophy, if you think the answer is obvious, you haven't understood the question. Keith Frankish
9 11
23 Jan 2015
O, what men do, not knowing what they do! Shakespeare
5 7
23 Jan 2015
Many people spend their health to gain wealth, only to one day spend their wealth to regain their health. A.J. Materi
7 10
23 Jan 2015
If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much. Soren Kierkegaard
5 8
22 Jan 2015
The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates
6 11
22 Jan 2015
Have more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest. Shakespeare
6 9
22 Jan 2015
It is always easier to criticize.
6 7
21 Jan 2015
Disputes multiply as if everything is uncertain, and are managed as if everything is certain. David Hume
2 4
21 Jan 2015
The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have. Soren Kierkegaard
10 14
21 Jan 2015
To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity. Nietzsche
5 9
21 Jan 2015
What we think, we become. Buddha
9 13
20 Jan 2015
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. Rousseau
10 11
20 Jan 2015
Wherever you are, be there.
9 10
20 Jan 2015
In order to improve the mind, we ought to learn less and contemplate more. Descartes
7 10
19 Jan 2015
How far a little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world. Shakespeare
5 9
19 Jan 2015
Deceivers are themselves deceived. Augustine
6 7
19 Jan 2015
Being just a critic is a poor thing at best. Robert Heinlein
3 4
19 Jan 2015
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. Martin Luther King
15 15
19 Jan 2015
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half. Fyodor Dostoevsky
9 11
19 Jan 2015
We should consider every day lost in which we haven't danced at least once. Nietzsche
8 10
18 Jan 2015
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way. Plato
4 7
18 Jan 2015
Laziness is a kind of sadness. Thomas Aquinas
11 16
18 Jan 2015
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. Plato
14 17
18 Jan 2015
Simplify, simplify, simplify. Henry David Thoreau
6 8
18 Jan 2015
The saddest thing of all is a man who goes through life without discovering his need for God. Soren Kierkegaard
7 10
17 Jan 2015
Have more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest. Shakespeare
7 13
17 Jan 2015
Simply simplify.
6 7
17 Jan 2015
Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. Blaise Pascal
5 6
16 Jan 2015
Virtue is never lonely. He who practices it will have friends. Confucius
4 6
16 Jan 2015
There are two sides to every question. Protagoras
3 4
16 Jan 2015
Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something. Plato
16 18
16 Jan 2015
Honest people don't hide their deeds. Bronte
3 5
15 Jan 2015
The one who does not love believes in vain. Augustine
2 4
15 Jan 2015
Nothing that is what it is by nature can be made different by habituation. Aristotle
3 4
15 Jan 2015
The greatest distraction of our age is that we have made distraction normal.
7 7
15 Jan 2015
The things that matter most must never be at the mercy of the things that matter least. Goethe
7 7
14 Jan 2015
He who loves money will not be satisfied with money. Ecclesiastes
7 9
14 Jan 2015
Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one. Nietzsche
15 18
14 Jan 2015
Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance; and be ready to let it go. Marcus Aurelius
4 7
14 Jan 2015
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not. Spinoza
3 4
13 Jan 2015
Men are so simple, and so inclined to obey immediate needs, that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions. Machiavelli
7 9
13 Jan 2015
Ponder the path of your feet. Proverbs
3 6
13 Jan 2015
The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. Cicero
2 2
13 Jan 2015
There's no such thing as an uninteresting life... Beneath the dullest exterior, there is a drama, a comedy, or a tragedy. Mark Twain
9 13
12 Jan 2015
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. Socrates
5 8
12 Jan 2015
Everyone dies for something. What will you die for?
5 6
12 Jan 2015
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
35 35
12 Jan 2015
Each day provides its own gifts. Marcus Aurelius
4 4
12 Jan 2015
A great part of freedom is a well-governed appetite. Seneca
2 3
11 Jan 2015
In man there is a deep so profound it is hidden even to him in whom it is. Augustine
4 9
11 Jan 2015
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. Albert Einstein
4 7
11 Jan 2015
If a man does his best, what else is there? George Patton
4 5
11 Jan 2015
The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all the conclusions of reason. Hume
6 7
10 Jan 2015
Usually, the hardest person's advice to take is your own.
7 10
10 Jan 2015
Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy. Plato
4 5
10 Jan 2015
Nothing looks more ugly than reason when it is not on our side. George Savile
4 7
10 Jan 2015
Inspect your thoughts. Suspect error.
7 9
9 Jan 2015
A man begins to die when he gives up on his desires. George Herbert
10 12
9 Jan 2015
We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. Martin Luther King Jr.
6 7
9 Jan 2015
The time is always right to do what is right. Martin Luther King Jr.
5 5
9 Jan 2015
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. Rousseau
7 8
8 Jan 2015
Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. Confucius
10 17
8 Jan 2015
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. Albert Einstein
12 12
8 Jan 2015
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. Aristotle
10 13
8 Jan 2015
People can contradict an opinion solely because of the tone in which it was expressed. Nietzsche
8 11
7 Jan 2015
Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. William James
9 13
7 Jan 2015
Whether or not God exists, I find myself searching for him.
6 14
7 Jan 2015
The virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so. Plato
4 8
7 Jan 2015
Love is no substitute for justice withheld. Augustine
3 4
6 Jan 2015
If you aren't confused, you aren't paying attention.
12 13
6 Jan 2015
A friend to all is a friend to none. Aristotle
9 14
6 Jan 2015
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them. Seneca
5 7
6 Jan 2015
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. Aristotle
11 16
6 Jan 2015
The desire to deceive indicates weakness. Descartes
4 7
5 Jan 2015
I measure the strength of a spirit by how much truth it can take. Nietzsche
7 10
5 Jan 2015
You can do anything, but not everything.
8 11
5 Jan 2015
Your Google search history is the real you.
6 6
5 Jan 2015
Nature never deceives us; it is we only who deceive ourselves. Rousseau
3 5
4 Jan 2015
Sometimes there is all the difference in the world between reasons for a believe, and causes of a belief.
2 3
4 Jan 2015
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. Albert Einstein
14 16
4 Jan 2015
This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs: when he first appears he is a protector. Plato
5 6
4 Jan 2015
It is greed to do all the talking and never to listen. Democritus
7 10
3 Jan 2015
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Gandhi
8 12
3 Jan 2015
If a man does his best, what else is there? George Patton
4 6
3 Jan 2015
Above all do not forget your duty to love yourself. Kierkegaard
8 10
3 Jan 2015
Few look for truth; many prowl about for a reputation of profundity by arrogantly challenging whichever arguments seem best. Descartes
5 7
3 Jan 2015
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. Albert Camus
5 18
3 Jan 2015
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. Voltaire
17 19
3 Jan 2015
Your life is what your thoughts make it. Confucius
7 11
2 Jan 2015
Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most. Buddha
10 13
2 Jan 2015
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. Schopenhauer
9 10
2 Jan 2015
The soul is healed by being around children. Dostoevsky
6 7
2 Jan 2015
As soon as it comes to the point where the crowd judges what is truth, it will not be long before decisions are made with fists. Soren K.
6 7
1 Jan 2015
Do not bear with patience wrongs done to another. Thomas Aquinas
4 5
1 Jan 2015
Philosophical discussion unites the two greatest and purest pleasures of human life: study and society. David Hume
6 8
1 Jan 2015
Read, and you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. Socrates
8 16
1 Jan 2015
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It is a poor mind indeed that cannot think of at least two ways to spell any word. Alexander Hamilton
2 3
31 Dec 2014
It is possible to waste so much time you aren't sure what to do with what remains.
3 6
31 Dec 2014
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. H.L. Mencken
6 7
31 Dec 2014
Ignorance is bold. Thucydides
3 4
31 Dec 2014
The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. Warren Buffet
8 10
30 Dec 2014
"Have I then become your enemy by telling you the truth?"
11 13
30 Dec 2014
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. Alexander Hamilton
6 8
30 Dec 2014
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated. Voltaire
3 5
30 Dec 2014
Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation. Abraham Lincoln
5 7
30 Dec 2014
We are all very ready to believe what we like. Samuel Richardson
4 5
29 Dec 2014
A friend who is unwilling to tell you the truth is no friend at all.
8 11
29 Dec 2014
Great is the art of the beginning, but greater is the art of ending. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
2 4
29 Dec 2014
Love is too young to know what conscience is. Shakespeare
4 5
29 Dec 2014
The most common form of despair is not being who you are. Soren Kierkegaard
13 15
28 Dec 2014
The soul is healed by being around children. Dostoevsky
5 10
28 Dec 2014
There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain. Plato
11 14
28 Dec 2014
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. Charles Buxton
10 11
28 Dec 2014
If you wish to improve your life, you must be prepared to sacrifice it. Leo Tolstoy
8 10
27 Dec 2014
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all. G.K. Chesterton
7 11
27 Dec 2014
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. Henry David Thoreau
12 13
27 Dec 2014
A man should enquire about that which he does not know. Socrates
6 8
27 Dec 2014
We make war that we may live in peace. Aristotle
4 7
26 Dec 2014
Better is a handful of quietness, than two hands full of toil and striving after the wind. Ecclesiastes
4 6
26 Dec 2014
Never underestimate the power of recalling good memories.
7 8
26 Dec 2014
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. Desiderius Erasmus
3 4
26 Dec 2014
Arguments, like men, are often pretenders. Socrates
4 4
26 Dec 2014
Purity of heart is to will one thing. Soren Kierkegaard
3 4
25 Dec 2014
The public has an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. Oscar Wilde
16 20
25 Dec 2014
Man is not affected by events, but by the view he takes of them. Epictetus
11 18
25 Dec 2014
As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy. Antisthenes.
4 7
25 Dec 2014
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. John Locke
8 10
24 Dec 2014
Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do. Voltaire
10 15
24 Dec 2014
We live in our desires rather than in our achievements. George Moore
5 6
24 Dec 2014
It is always easier to be someone else.
4 5
24 Dec 2014
Better is a handful of quietness, than two hands full of toil and striving after the wind. Ecclesiastes
4 6
24 Dec 2014
As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can. Caesar
5 8
23 Dec 2014
The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. Cicero
2 4
22 Dec 2014
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. Lao Tzu
8 13
22 Dec 2014
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. Camus
11 14
22 Dec 2014
Philosophy is the science which considers truth. Aristotle
5 7
22 Dec 2014
It is possible to waste so much time you aren't sure what to do with what remains.
4 6
22 Dec 2014
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. G.K. Chesterton
4 4
21 Dec 2014
What can we say for the creature for whom everything is never enough?
4 6
21 Dec 2014
You can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own. Chaim Potok
8 10
21 Dec 2014
I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'. Henry Moore
4 7
21 Dec 2014
There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly. Galileo
9 9
20 Dec 2014
A witty saying proves nothing. Voltaire
4 8
20 Dec 2014
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Gandhi
10 14
20 Dec 2014
The less open-minded someone is, the more open-mouthed they tend to be. Nicole Azavedo
11 11
20 Dec 2014
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain
11 16
19 Dec 2014
Your children will reap what you sow. Virgil
4 8
19 Dec 2014
What a lot of things there are a man can do without. Socrates
5 5
19 Dec 2014
The human mind is generally far more eager to praise or dispraise than it is to describe and define. C.S. Lewis
6 8
19 Dec 2014
Neither love, friendship, or respect, unite as much as common hatred. Anonymous
4 5
19 Dec 2014
If the highest aim of a captain was the preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. Thomas Aquinas
8 10
18 Dec 2014
I can show you where to dig, and what to dig for, but the digging you must do for yourself. Matisyahu
6 9
18 Dec 2014
We must destroy even what is close to us if that is the way to preserve truth. Aristotle.
5 6
18 Dec 2014
Your silence gives consent. Plato
8 9
18 Dec 2014
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom. Sophocles
6 7
18 Dec 2014
Men are quick to believe what they want to be true. Julius Caesar
11 12
17 Dec 2014
Wise men learn from their enemies. Aristophanes
7 11
17 Dec 2014
If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please. Epictetus
5 6
17 Dec 2014
Nothing is to be preferred before justice. Socrates
3 5
17 Dec 2014
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. Albert Einstein
13 14
16 Dec 2014
No truly great thing is created suddenly. Epictetus
7 8
16 Dec 2014
The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. Vincent Van Gogh
9 14
16 Dec 2014
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. Einstein
9 9
16 Dec 2014
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage. Seneca
5 8
16 Dec 2014
Above all, do not lie to yourself. Dostoyevsky
10 12
15 Dec 2014
Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains. Rousseau
7 9
15 Dec 2014
If a man does his best, what else is there? George Patton
3 6
15 Dec 2014
I measure the strength of a spirit by how much truth it can take. Nietzsche
8 11
15 Dec 2014
Who you are when no one is looking is who you are.
10 13
14 Dec 2014
To love at all is to be vulnerable. C.S. Lewis
10 18
14 Dec 2014
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. Martin Luther King
6 8
14 Dec 2014
Take responsibility for your beliefs.
6 9
14 Dec 2014
Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed. Epictetus
2 3
13 Dec 2014
People who cannot handle critique usually have a deeper problem than the one you are trying to point out.
8 12
13 Dec 2014
If any man has done wrong, the harm is his own.
4 6
13 Dec 2014
Losing yourself is a transaction, a series of concessions.
4 6
13 Dec 2014
"Have I then become your enemy by telling you the truth?"
9 12
13 Dec 2014
Wisdom is not words.
5 6
13 Dec 2014
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out. Winston Churchill
10 12
12 Dec 2014
Remember all that is good, lest we forget.
2 5
12 Dec 2014
Men trust their ears less than their eyes. Herodotus
3 4
12 Dec 2014
Nature never deceives us; it is we only who deceive ourselves. Rousseau
3 3
12 Dec 2014
Arguments, like men, are often pretenders. Socrates
4 6
11 Dec 2014
Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains. Rousseau
8 10
11 Dec 2014
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. Plato
13 16
11 Dec 2014
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time. Edith Wharton
5 8
11 Dec 2014
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser men so full of doubts.
33 28
11 Dec 2014
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it. John Lubbock
5 7
11 Dec 2014
He is happy, whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent, who can suit his temper to any circumstances. David Hume
7 9
10 Dec 2014
There are two sides to every question. Protagoras
4 5
10 Dec 2014
He who is always talking will find it difficult to make his words good. Confucius
4 6
10 Dec 2014
The only frustrating thing about happiness is it's ubiquitous elusiveness.
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( παρακαλώ χρησιμοποιώντας το δεξιό κλικ του mouse, ανοίξτε τον επόμενο σύνδεσμο
( ιστοσελίδα ) σε ξεχωριστό παράθυρο προς τα δεξιά, )
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