To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?
Socrates
The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.
Socrates
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
Just look at us. Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information and religions destroy spirituality.-David Ellner
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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
Aristotle
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
Aristotle
A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
Plato
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato
An honest man is always a child.
Socrates
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates
Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry - Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength - Eric Hoffer 1902-1983
Were it not for imagination, sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess - Dr Samuel Johnson 1709-1784
Covenants without the sword are but words - Hobbes.
A ton of philosophy can be extremely boring to read, so its nice to come across some cool one-liners once in a while.
To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?
Socrates
The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.
Socrates
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
Socrates
"Dare to use your knowledge"
Quoted by Kant and sir Karl Popper;
Just look at us. Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information and religions destroy spirituality.-David Ellner
"It is better to be a human dissatisfied than a pig satisfied."
-J.S. Mill
"fame brings a second death."
Boethius
"Always strive to be kind even especially when you least want to be kind." (me-Richard D.W).