Philosophy Quotes

"I am tortured by an intellectual conscience that will not let me believe what I wish to believe."

"Every human carries within them the capacity for both good and evil."

"The golden rule is that there are no golden rules."

"Hell is paved with good intentions."

"Crime and beauty grow in the same soil."

"The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong."

"We are bodies before we are minds."

"The universe is a dark and immense world."

"He realised that there was nothing new under the sun."

"Adversity is the greatest teacher of human nature."

"The greatest battles are fought within the human heart."

"We are all authors of our own destiny, yet bound by forces beyond our control."

"Ambition without ethics is the road to spiritual bankruptcy."

"We must learn to find meaning in suffering, not just in joy."

"Pessimism is not cowardice; it is clarity about the human condition."

"Progress is an illusion we maintain to justify the present to the past."

"We are all actors on the stage of life, but the script is written by forces beyond us."

"Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds."

"The great deeds of philosophers are concealed."

"The very essence of tragedy is that it is irreversible."

"In this world there are but two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants and the other is getting it."

"The unexamined life is not worth living in any era."

"Every philosophy carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution."

"Every soul carries the capacity for both destruction and creation."

"How can we know the dancer from the dance?"

"The world to me does not present a continuity, but rather a series of pictures or instances."

"All empty souls tend to extreme opinions."

"The slave begins to think and to find himself the slave of thought."

"We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meanwhile within man is the soul of the whole."

"The soul fortunately has an interpreter."