“That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.”
More from Anatole France on Philosophy
“If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.”
“What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?”
“Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.”
“It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.”
“No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.”
“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.”
“I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.”
Others on Philosophy
Christopher Hitchens
22 quotes“To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: why not?”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
22 quotes“I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
Nietzsche
22 quotes“Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.”
Carl Jung
21 quotes“I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.”
Immanuel Kant
20 quotes“An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.”
Heraclitus
19 quotes“Nothing endures but change.”
H. L. Mencken
17 quotes“A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds...”
C.S. Lewis
15 quotes“For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
14 quotes“I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.”
Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?”
Buddha
13 quotes“To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.”