Aristotle
Education is the best provision for old age.
Bertrand Russell
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Bertrand Russell
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
Bertrand Russell
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
Karl Marx
Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
Bertrand Russell
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Bertrand Russell
War does not determine who is right – only who is left.
Karl Marx
Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
Friedrich Nietzsche
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Bertrand Russell
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
Confucius
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Friedrich Nietzsche
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
Bertrand Russell
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.