COMPASSION

Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live thoughtlessly and begins to devote himself to his life
with reverence in order to give it true value.
— Albert Schweitzer

12/28/2012

Philosophy Quotes


“Happy is he who has overcome his ego.”
- Buddha


Reason is immortal, all else is mortal.
-Pythagoras



Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.
- Confuscious


I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates



The life which is unexamined is not worth living.
- Socrates



If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.
- Plato


What we call learning is only a process of recollection.
- Plato


All men by nature desire to know.
- Aristotle


Every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.
- Aristotle



 He has the most who is most content with the least.
-Diogenes of Sinope



To know nothing is the happiest life.
- Desiderius Erasmus


Imagination decides everything.
 - Blaise Pascal


Man is an animal that makes bargains.
- Adam Smith


The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle.
- Karl Marx


Act as if what you do makes a difference.
- William James


We only think when we are confronted with problems.
- John Dewey


In so far as a scientific statement speaks of reality, it must be falsifiable.
- Karl Popper



Existence precedes essence.
Jean-Paul Sartre



Life will be lived all the better if it has no meaning.
- Albert Camus



If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
Noam Chomsky






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