The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.
Ludwig Wittgenstein · The source reads: “Die Welt des Glücklichen ist eine andere als die des Unglücklichen. The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.”
Philosophy quotes from Socrates and the Stoics to Pascal, Nietzsche and Camus: the thoughts worth thinking twice, each checked to its source.
Ludwig Wittgenstein · The source reads: “Die Welt des Glücklichen ist eine andere als die des Unglücklichen. The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein · The source reads: “Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen meiner Welt. The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein · The source reads: “Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist. The world is everything that is the case.”
Tennessee Williams
Alfred North Whitehead
Voltaire · The source reads: “Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer. If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.”
Voltaire · The source reads: “La superstition met le monde entier en flammes; la philosophie les èteint. Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them.”
Voltaire · The source reads: “Tout est pour le mieux dans le meilleur des mondes possibles. All is for the best in the best of possible worlds.”
Miguel de Unamuno · The source reads: “La vida es duda, y la fe sin la duda es sólo muerte. Life is doubt, And faith without doubt is nothing but death.”
Henry David Thoreau
Tertullian · The source reads: “Certum est quia impossibile est. It is certain because it is impossible.”
Terence · The source reads: “Homo sum; humani nil a me alienum puto. I am a man, I count nothing human foreign to me.”
Sophocles
John Selden
Jean-Paul Sartre · The source reads: “Je suis condemnè á être libre. I am condemned to be free.”
Jean-Paul Sartre · The source reads: “L'existence prècéde et commande l'essence. Existence precedes and rules essence.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau · The source reads: “L'homme est nè libre, et partout il est dans les fers. Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”
Punch, 1855.
Protagoras
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