Philosophy Quotes

"Every soul carries within it both light and shadow."

"Fate and free will are the eternal dancers in life's ballroom."

"To know oneself is to know the universe."

"The basis of morality is the desire of mankind to live together."

"Every person contains the universe within themselves."

"Philosophy is the eternal conversation about eternal questions."

"The soul of a Russian cannot be comprehended by the Western mind."

"A cynic is simply a romantic who has been disappointed too many times."

"I have within me contradictions that no logic can reconcile."

"Fate whispers while we shout about our plans."

"We mistake cynicism for wisdom and call it maturity."

"The soul's geography is mapped by its wounds, not its victories."

"We are all exiles in the land of our own making."

"We are all prisoners of our own temperaments."

"I have found that truth is often less interesting than fiction."

"All that falls out of the window into the street imparts an idea of absurdity to the observer."

"Consciousness is a kind of shambles."

"The world is a hell and men are devils."

"Suicide is a kind of admission. It is confession."

"Since things are the way they are, things as they are will remain the way they are."

"Everything is relative."

"One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language."

"Think you're escaping and run into yourself."

"In the particular is contained the universal."

"We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-law."

"Man can get used to anything, the scoundrel."

"I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped."

"I swear by all that is sacred, I have always loved humanity, but I have grown to hate individual men."

"Vanity is the secret source of all evil."

"The wicked often believe that wickedness is better than anything."