Zamolxx

YES THAT IS MY RIGHT EYE!
-Nothing happens to a man that nature did not fit him to bear.
-The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape the ranks of the insane.
-A man should pe upright, not be kept upright.
Marcus Aurelius
-There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible.
-Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
-I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
-I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general.
-The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source and this is what we call God.
Gottfried Leibniz
-I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides; that it is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.
-Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus.
-The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment
-Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.
Johannes Kepler
-A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
-God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
-The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
Niccolo Machiavelli
-It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.
-The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
-We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
-When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.
-You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
-A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
-A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
-A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
-All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
-Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
-As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
-Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
-Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
-God does not play dice.
-I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-The universe is finite and unbounded.
Albert Einstein
-Call no man happy until he is dead, but only lucky.
-Learn to obey before you command.
-In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
-Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
-Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
-Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
-Speech is the mirror of action.
Solon
-A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
-All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
-And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
-As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
-Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
-At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
-Democracy passes into despotism.
-Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
-For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
-He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
-Plato

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