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Philosophy quotes and quotations:
Humanity and justice are the
principles
on which to govern a state.
- Sun Tzu, The Art of War
The art of war is of vital importance
to
the state. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to
safety or to ruin. Hence under no circumstances can it be
neglected.
- Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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If you know the enemy and know
yourself,
you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know
yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will
also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor
yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
- Sun Tzu,
The Art of War
To see the world in a
grain
of sand, and heaven in a wild flower, to hold infinity in the
palm of the hand, and eternity in an hour.
-William Blake
Know thyself.
- Socrates
An unexamined life is not worth
living.
- Socrates
And more philosophy quotes and quotations:
The Good Brahmin. The Brahmin said,
"I
wish I had never been born." "Why so?" said I. "Because," he
replied, "I have been studying these forty years, and I find
that it has been so much time lost … I believe that I am
composed of matter, but I have never been able to satisfy
myself what it is that produces thought. I am even ignorant
whether my understanding is a simple faculty like that of
walking or digesting, or if I think with my head in the same
manner as I take hold of a thing with my hands … I talk a great
deal and when I have done speaking, I remain confounded and
ashamed of what I have said." The same day I had a conversation
with an old woman, his neighbor. I asked her if she had ever
been unhappy for not understanding how her soul was made? She
did not even comprehend my question. She had not, for the
briefest moment in her life, had a thought about these subjects
with which the good Brahmin had so tormented himself. She
believed in the bottom of her heart in the metamorphoses of
Vishnu, and provided she could get some sacred water of the
Ganges in which to make her ablutions she thought herself the
happiest of women. Struck with the happiness of this poor
creature, I returned to my philosopher, whom I thus addressed:
"Are you not ashamed to be thus miserable when, not fifty yards
from you, there is an old automaton who thinks of nothing and
lives contented?"
"You are right," he replied. "I have
said
to myself a thousand times That I should be happy if I were but
as ignorant as my old neighbor; and yet it is a happiness which
I do not desire." This reply of the Brahmin made a greater
impression on me than anything that had passed.
- Sourced from
The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant.
Still more philosophy quotes and quotations:
Our greatest glory lies not in never
falling but in rising every time we fall.
-Confucius.
If everything must have a cause then
God
must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause
then it may just as well be the world as God, so that there
cannot be any validity in that argument. It is exactly the same
nature as the Indian's view, that the world rested upon an
elephant, and the elephant rested upon a tortoise; and when
they said, "How about the tortoise?" the Indian replied,
"Suppose we change the subject." This argument is really no
better than that.
- Bertrand Russell from
Why I am not a Christian
More philosophy quotes:
To spend too much time in studies is
sloth, to use them too much for ornamentation is affectation,
to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a
scholar … Crafty men condemn studies, simple men admire them,
and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use, but
that there is a wisdom without them and above them, won by
observation.
- Francis Bacon The Essays
In books we converse with the wise,
as in
action with fools.
- Francis Bacon The Essays
Some books are to be tasted, others
to be
swallowed, and some to be chewed and digested.
- Francis Bacon
The Essays And still more philosophy quotes
Remember your humanity and forget the
rest.
- Bertrand Russell
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