This page features a selection of the best quotes by Bertrand Russell. All of these quotes are real and references are given after each quote. Here are the best quotes by Russell in no particular order: The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from the habitual beliefs of his age or his nation, and from convictions which have grown up in his mind without the cooperation or consent of his deliberate reason. – The Problems of Philosophy, ch. …
The Best Quotes by Hannah Arendt (Real Quotes with References)
This page features a selection of the best quotes by Hannah Arendt. All of these quotes are real and references are given after each quote. Here are the best quotes by Arendt in no particular order: Power can be thought of as the never-ending, self-feeding motor of all political action that corresponds to the legendary unending accumulation of money that begets money. – The Origins of Totalitarianism, pt. 2, ch. 5 Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks …
The Best Quotes by Michel Foucault (Real Quotes with References)
This page features a selection of the best quotes by Michel Foucault. All of these quotes are real and references are given after each quote. Here are the best quotes by Foucault in no particular order: If power were never anything but repressive, if it never did anything but to say no, do you really think one would be brought to obey it? What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn’t only weigh on us as a force that says no, but …
The Best Quotes by Schopenhauer (Real Quotes with References)
This page features a selection of the best quotes by Schopenhauer. All of these quotes are real and references are given after each quote. Here are the best quotes by Schopenhauer in no particular order: Authors should use common words to say uncommon things. But they do just the opposite. We find them trying to wrap up trivial ideas in grand words, and to clothe their very ordinary thoughts in the most extraordinary phrases, the most far-fetched, unnatural, and out-of-the-way expressions. Their sentences perpetually stalk about on stilts. They take …
The Best Quotes by Thomas Hobbes (Real Quotes with References)
This page features a selection of the best quotes by Thomas Hobbes. All of these quotes are real and references are given after each quote. Here are the best quotes by Hobbes in no particular order: Words understood are but the seed, and no part of the harvest of philosophy. – Six Lessons to the Professors of Mathematics The most noble and profitable invention of all other was that of speech, consisting of names or appellations, and their connexion; whereby men register their thoughts, recall them when they are past, …