Philosophy Quotes

"There is strong shadow where there is much light."

"True and false are attributes of speech, not of things."

"Philosophy is the art of being happy through reason."

"Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses."

"A Poet is the most unpoetical of any thing in existence."

"To serve is to reign, to obey is to rule."

"Hell is paved with good intentions."

"We are the creatures of impulse rather than of reason."

"A man is made up of innumerable contradictions, and so is a poem."

"To be, or not to be, that is the question"

"This is the excellent foppery of the world"

"In sooth, I know not why I am so sad"

"All the world's a stage"

"How little do we know that which we are!"

"What is fame but a vulgar desire to be known?"

"All that we are is a result of what we have thought."

"Reason can never go beyond experience."

"All things are symptoms of a cosmic order."

"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."

"We are all asleep and dreaming; what we call waking is merely another form of sleep."

"Reflection is the business of man."

"The voice of reason is often drowned out by the noise of passion."

"The deepest philosophy arises from the simplest observations."

"Philosophy is the art of dying well through learning to live truly."

"Call the world if you please 'The vale of soul-making'."

"There are too many peculiarities to explain the delicate thread of life."

"Taste is the only morality—tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are."

"I can see nothing further than the absolute necessity of my existence."

"A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory."