French Philosopher Sayings

#1. He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)
French philosopher and writer.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#2. I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed the way I think is the French philosopher, Blaise Pascal.

Andrea Bocelli

#3. For example, a few years ago, a great French philosopher, Roger Garaudy, wrote a scientific book. He did not offend, curse, or insult anyone. He wrote a scientific research of an academic nature, in which he discussed the alleged Jewish Holocaust in Germany. He proved that this Holocaust is a myth.

Hassan Nasrallah

#4. Nor am I nostalgic, as a French philosopher once wrote, for a lost poverty. I am nostalgic for the solidarity and sharing a modest existence can sometimes bring.

Alice Walker

#5. As the seventeenth-century French philosopher Montaigne once said, "My life has been filled with terrible misfortune, most of which never happened.

Kristin Neff

#6. The French philosopher Jacques Derrida likens writing fiction to a software code that operates in the hardware of your mind. Stringing together separate macros that, combined, will create a reaction.

Chuck Palahniuk

#7. As French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre noted sixty years ago, as soon as we imagine we're being watched, we start to notice how we're behaving, and we begin to imagine how other people might respond if they were watching.

Adam Alter

#8. Think about it - God made you and perhaps he wants you to use your melancholy personality to accomplish his purposes in you.

Ronnie Worsham

#9. The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#10. But I don't know how I'll ever get a college degree and rise in the world with no high school diploma and eyes like piss holes in the snow, as everyone tells me.

Frank McCourt

#11. What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves?

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#12. The French have never produced a great philosopher. Great wine maybe, but no great philosophers.

Michael O'Leary

#13. I could never have gone to Africa another way and had the same experience. It was my job and my joy at the same time.

Forest Whitaker

#14. You have to be objective about money to use it fairly. It doesn't make you any better or any more useful than any other person. Even if you use your money to help people ... that doesn't make you better than somebody who has no money but is sympathetic and genuinely loving to fellow human beings.

Keith Haring

#15. Protecting the human race should really come with a per diem, I swear.

Seanan McGuire

#16. You go through that stage where you're coming up with the concept, ideas and all that you need to make a record. It always feels like hard labor.

Matt Shultz

#17. If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Katherine Mansfield

#18. Tracy Morgan is subdued. I'm cool. I'm chilled out.

Tracy Morgan

#19. If you're going to play high school football, you do it in Texas or Florida or Georgia for the simple fact it's such a big deal.

J. R. Martinez

#20. His mind raced through past horrors experienced first hand and from the accounts of others. He mentally flipped through a grim database which contained everything from vegan flatmates to psychotic pimps.

Irvine Welsh

#21. I deem we have still much to do and will of course strive for stabilizing the situation in the country and continuing reforms. I am confident in success. All we need at this point is public order.

Serzh Sargsyan

#22. Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

William James