Philosophy Quotes

"A philosopher's wisdom is tested by how well he lives, not how well he speaks."

"Philosophy begins in wonder and ends in understanding."

"The supreme effort of reason is to recognize the play of irrationality."

"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought."

"The infinite is there, shining out of the depths of everything."

"You are not what you think you are, but what you think, you are."

"Philosophy is the pursuit of wisdom."

"Philosophy questions everything."

"What do the senseless injury and misery we witness daily by the roadside teach us about ourselves?"

"How strange it is that we call this world a dead matter, and ourselves living spirits."

"The greatest monsters are those we create ourselves."

"What makes us human is our capacity to feel."

"To understand the monster is to understand ourselves."

"To be alive is to be forever seeking answers."

"Philosophy teaches us that the only certainty is uncertainty."

"Every person carries within them the capacity for both great good and terrible evil."

"How strange it is to be anything at all."

"Thought is a labyrinth."

"God is a circle whose circumference is nowhere and center everywhere."

"Memory is a labyrinth from which we are always trying to escape."

"The passions of man are the most sincere things that exist in him."

"The deepest questions in philosophy remain unanswered by those seeking easy answers."

"Every man has his speculative minute, but he is a predominant ass who mistakes his quotidian in-and-out breathing for the sea and the motion of the world."

"I have never been able to perceive how any thing can be known for truth by consecutive reasoning."

"We must think or not think."

"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting."

"Such, vast is the plot of man's admirable nature."

"The best philosophy is that which instructs us how to die."

"Every moment carries within it eternity."

"Beauty and truth are sisters."