It Philosophy Quotes

Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action.(There is no reality except in action.)

How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?

Pactum serva" - "Keep the faith

YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side, 'said the dewdrop to the lake.

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.

You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil.

Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?

It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up...

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine.

Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.

let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.

Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal... an exalted and noble 'to this end.' Perish in pursuit of this and only this

When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.

Of Equality--as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself--as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.

why are we here?where do we come from?traditionally, these are questionsfor philosophy, but philosophy is dead

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason

Isn't wine prohibited here?" the boy asked. "It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil, " said the alchemist. "It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?

Never say never

I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you have still chaos in you.

This is your life, and its ending one minute at a time.

whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived

One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of lif cannot be estimated.

You must go on.I can’t go on.I’ll go on.

After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.

He who would know the world must first manufacture it.

Modest doubt is call'd the beacon of the wise.

The maturity of man—that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play

As individuals express their life, so they are.

In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg.Shall I swallow cave-phantoms?

Wisdom is seeing something in a non-habitual manner.

The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world.

Piety, then, is that which is dear to the gods, and impiety is that which is not dear to them.

There are three sources of belief: reason, custom, inspiration.

Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy.

Man is an end in himself.

Compassion is the basis of all morality

Excess of strength alone is proof of strength

There is something almost shocking in the notion of so chaste a function carrying this Kantian hurlyburly in her womb.

Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.

All that exists is just and unjust and is equally justified in both respects.

Of all knowledge, the wise and good seek mostly to know themselves.

The summer's flower is to the summer sweetThough to itself it only live and die

Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences.

Sin is a gravitation.

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