Philosophical Quotes

All these mirrorscarnival distortionsof selves we never were.

We all have our safe places, where none are invited. They are lonely rooms full of the musk of memory. Sanctuary rather than adventure.

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

God is like a search engine — He is willing to answer your requests, but you must ask Him the right questions.

One needs to properly possess only a couple of great thoughts--they shed light on many stretches whose illumination one would never have believed in.

Honesty scares quite a lot of people.

The only working model of socialism I have ever seen is in an elementary school classroom.

Luck is often just skill expressing itself without the brain’s consent.

Must this with farce and folly rack myhead unpunish'd ? that with sing-song, Whine me dead?

At the moment you think all is lost, the future remains.

Sometimes changing the world is as simple as changing the way you look at it.

I suppose belief is there to prevent people from thinking.

Dreams are doorways into other dimensions that you forget how to open once you’re awake.

Without the quest, there can be no epiphany.

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

I think I made a better boy than I do a man, I admitted ruefully to the wolf. Why not wait until you've been at it a bit longer and then decide? he suggested.

Are you dying?"Cato lit his cigarette. "It's not acute, perhaps, but we're all dying, Harry.

You have the ability to find all the answers--if you let yourself do so.

Evil is done by the living.

Evil doesn't just go away.

A book without conversation, is like a life without friends, you know it's going to end, but you want it to be soon.

If he ever changes his stance on something, it's because he's received new information.

Some people remember the sixties better than others do. Some weren't even there, some who were there were not really there, and some who were not really there were "really there".

That's a stupid question, ' said Malachi. 'Because he didn't warn him. He didn't warn anyone.''No, it's a philosophical question, ' Kearns corrected him. 'Which makes it useless, not stupid.

Man is Nature's most wonderful creature. Torturing him, crushing him, murdering him for his beliefs and ideas is more than a violation of human rights-it is a crime against all humanity.

Until we realize that things might not be we cannot realize that things are.

Irony is the kid who steals music and is stolen by the music.

Heated is what you get when you rub faith and instinct together.

It's fine to have a dream girl, but you should ask yourself…would you be her dream boy?

Only people are worth dying for.

Life is like a box of cookies: it's good while it lasts, but before you know it, it's gone.

It's best to locate the mind first before launching the 'missiles of contention'.

When we merely follow another, we take a potentially creative mind out of service-our own.

One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it

Only by knowing yourself can you live honestly and find your own path.

.....we find ourselves inhabitants of the last few living cells of a dying god

So many things become beautiful when you really look

Then sense. Use your sense. Not all of us are born for greatness, but all of us have sense. Make use of it. Think. Think long and well.

It's in out-of-the-ordinary situations - especially situations of challenge or adversity - that the most important differences between people shine through.

If we forget the past, individually or as a culture, we lose knowledge that has already been gained, and we lose valuable tools by which our knowledge may grow.

we live best when we live for a cause greater than ourselves

At the heart of all of mankind’s achievements is imagination.

Yet if all reality is subjective, all certitude is impossible.

I can’t seem to shake this perpetual awareness of being Molly.

Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.

As I usually do when I want to get rid of someone whose conversation bores me, I pretended to agree.

Live the way life does, love the way they does

The way we live, decides the meaning of life.And the way we die, tells how much meaningful we made it.

I think it's early. Early in our lives. Early in the night. Early in the new year. If you're counting, you'll notice the earlys outnumber the lates.

We don't think. We think we think.