Philosophy Quotes

"Morality is a relative thing."

"In the composition of the human body as of the world, harmony is the result of less obvious elements than discord."

"We are all capable of good and evil."

"The greatest philosophers are those who learned from ordinary life."

"A man's character is his fate."

"The human heart is my favorite study."

"Human nature is a strange mixture of strength and weakness."

"Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?"

"A man with convictions is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away."

"Reason can teach us to call virtue the acts which lead to happiness and vice those which lead to misery."

"Eternity is a child playing with blocks; the supreme king."

"Existence is a form of madness."

"There is something deeper in us than thought."

"Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest."

"Every man has in his heart a private dungeon."

"Modern life has made criticism impossible."

"The universe has no center but every point is its center."

"Every human being is a door to infinity."

"The heart knows secrets the mind will never understand."

"Every man carries within him the seed of his own destruction."

"The human heart contains the seeds of both creation and destruction."

"Philosophy teaches us to question everything."

"Philosophy asks the questions others fear to ask."

"There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand."

"I am not evil; I am only several monster parts sewn together."

"The universe is composed of one substance—the mind."

"Philosophy should serve humanity."

"Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in the human heart."

"The civilized world has always been governed by the same feelings that govern the savage."

"Every human heart has its own mystery."