Philosophy Quotes
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.
L'utilité du vivre n'est pas en l'espace: elle est en l'usage.
Heureuse la mort qui oste le loisir aux apprests de tel equipage.
Serenity comes from the ability to say “Yes” to existence. Courage comes from the ability to say “No” to the wrong choices made by others.
Every Profound thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood
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.
Scriptural doctrine contains not abstruse speculation or philosophic reasoning, but very simple matters able to be understood by the most sluggish mind.
D'autant que nous avons cher, estre, et estre consiste en mouvement et action.
To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
J'accuse toute violence en l'education d'une ame tendre, qu'on dresse pour l'honneur, et la liberté.
There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.
Je hay entre autres vices, cruellement la cruauté, et par nature et par jugement, comme l'extreme de tous les vices.
To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.
Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-
The feminine section of the proletarian army is of particularly great significance... the success of a revolution depends on the extent to which women take part in it.
From the scientific view, the theory of karma may be a metaphysical assumption -- but it is no more so than the assumption that all of life is material and originated out of pure chance
Plato offers the amazing idea that contemplation of the way things really are is, in itself, a purifying process that can bring human beings into the only divinity there is.
Les naturels sanguinaires à l'endroit des bestes, tesmoignent une propension naturelle à la cruauté.
Nature a, (ce crains-je) elle mesme attaché à l'homme quelque instinct à l'inhumanité
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
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.
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.
The worst type of man behaves as badly in his waking life as some men do in their dreams.
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.
But this payment goes well beyond my generosity, " the monk responded."Don’t say that again. Life might be listening, and give you less the next time.
Plus d'un qui n'a pu liberer ses propres chaines a su pourtant en liberer son ami.
Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
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...
