75 quotes
It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this moment.
The Gentle Philosopher (2006)
Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.
The Story of Civilization (1935)
Caesar and Christ had met in the arena, and Christ had won.
The Story of Civilization (1935)
I felt more keenly than before the need of a philosophy that would do justice to the infinite vitality of nature.
Transition (1927)
There is nothing in Greek civilization that does not illuminate our own.
The Story of Civilization (1935)
India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings.
The Case for India (1931)
Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
The Story of Philosophy (1926)
Children and fools speak the truth; and somehow they find happiness in their sincerity.
Fallen Leaves (2014)
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
The Story of Philosophy (1926)
I know how unfashionable it is now to acknowledge in life or history any genius loftier than ourselves.
The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time (2002)
Life is that which is discontent, which struggles and seeks, which suffers and creates.
Fallen Leaves (2014)
Childhood may be defined as the age of play; therefore some children are never young, and some adults are never old.
Fallen Leaves (2014)
Let us ask the Gods not for possessions, but for things to do; happiness is in making things rather than consuming them.
Fallen Leaves (2014)
Happiness is the free play of the instincts, and so is youth.
Fallen Leaves (2014)
Time, subjectively, is the conscious sequence of perceptions.
Fallen Leaves (2014)
A man is as old as his arteries, and as young as his ideas.
Fallen Leaves (2014)
She is a woman now, and not an idle girl, not a domestic ornament or a sexual convenience anymore.
Fallen Leaves (2014)
Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
A sensation is the feeling of an external stimulus or an internal condition.
Fallen Leaves (2014)
See him, the newborn, dirty but marvelous, ridiculous in actuality, infinite in possibility, capable of that ultimate miracle, growth.
Fallen Leaves (2014)