It Philosophy Quotes
Man lives consciously for himself but unconsciously he serves as an instrument for the accomplishment of historical and social ends.
Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.
men, in so far as they live in obedience to reason necessarily do only such things as are necessarily good for human nature, and consequently for each individual man.
If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather sufficient strength in order to acquire the natural right of reconquering what has been taken from them
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.
It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
In the endthese things matter most:How well did you love?How fully did you live?How deeply did you let go?
Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
As I naturally go through a full range of emotions in my life, I mustn’t feel ashamed for feeling lost, for it is honest and human to feel such.
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
A truth that's told with bad intentBeats all the lies you can invent.
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.
I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage
Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.
All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.
All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery
Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attibutable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.