It Philosophy Quotes
It struck him that the true characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness.
Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.
Anarchy is law and freedom without force.Despotism is law and force without freedom.Barbarism force without freedom and law.Republicanism is force with freedom and law.
People are wonderful one at a time. Each one of them has an entire hologram of the universe somewhere within them.
the matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice ...
Life is about refinement, not perfection. And you still have refining to do.
The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense.
He who knows the 'Why' for his existence is able to bear almost any 'How'.
Advocates of capitalism like to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
The Master, by residing in the Tao, sets an example for all beings.Because he doesn't display himself, people can see his light.Because he has nothing to prove, people can trust his
Remove the letter 'I'(EGO) and word 'WANT'(DESIRE) from the statement "I WANT HAPPINESS" and you will be remained with 'HAPPINESS
Reason is your means of survival — so that for you, who are a human being, the question ‘to be or not to be’ is the question 'to think or not to think..'.
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
By the grace of reality and the nature of life, man—every man—is an end in himself, he exists for his own sake, and the achievement of his own happiness is his highest moral purpose.
Everything is going to be right at the end. If it's not right, then it is not the end.
To exist is to be something, as distinguished from the nothing of non-existence, it is to be an entity of a specific nature made of specific attributes.
The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another...
It is time that we had uncommon schools, that we did not leave off our education when we begin to be men and women.
We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured... It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.
Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification.
We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.
Education is not to be viewed as something like filling a vessel with water but, rather, assisting a flower to grow in its own way
This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero.
Most people would rather die than think and many of them do!
An opportunity fordoing an injury happens a hundred times a day, hut for doing good not once a year, " says Zoroaster.
The worst type of man behaves as badly in his waking life as some men do in their dreams.
Every means hitherto employed with the intention of making mankind moral has been thoroughly immoral.
Do not cry that it is our duty to serve you. We do not recognize such duty. Do not cry that you need us. We do not consider need a claim. Do not cry that you own us. You don’t.
To measure a man's happiness only by what he gets, and not also by what he expects to get, is as futile as to try and express a fraction which shall have a numerator but no denominator.
He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceived.
Youth's longing misconceived inconsistency.Those whom I deemedChanged to my kin, the friends of whom I dreamed, Have aged and lost our old affinity:One has to change to stay akin to me.
Pure logic is the impossibility by means of which science is maintained.
Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomèd mine—Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile madeThe tender-person'd Lamia melt into a shade
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[E]very man ought to say to himself, "Am I really the kind of man who has the right to act in such a way that humanity might guide itself by my actions?
Existentialism's first move is to make every man aware of what he is and to make the full responsibility of his existence rest on him.
The pride of aiming at more knowledge, and pretending to more perfection, is the cause of Man's error and misery.
For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize.
Every Profound thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood
Haven't you noticed that opinion without knowledge is always a poor thing? At the best it is blind—isn't anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding like a blind man on the right road?
You never really know something until you teach it to someone else.