MrMatto's Journal: Quotes from dead white guys: part 1

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
Epicurus

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Epicurus

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
Epicurus

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
Epicurus

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
Epicurus

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
Immanuel Kant

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
Immanuel Kant

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
Aristotle

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Plato

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
Albert Camus

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Religion is the opium of the masses.
Karl Marx

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
Friedrich Nietzsche

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
Friedrich Nietzsche

And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
Friedrich Nietzsche