Philosophy Quotes

"The mind of man is the light of the cosmos."

"I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man."

"A man may go mad by studying the philosophers if he is not careful."

"The superior man thinks always of virtue, the common man thinks of comfort."

"Virtue is not left to stand alone. It must always exist with something else."

"The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell."

"The superior man is distressed by the limitation of his ability; he is not distressed by the limitation of his income."

"When the gentleman thinks, he always thinks how to get to the door; when the mean man thinks, he always thinks how to get out."

"The superior man blames himself; the inferior man blames others."

"As the bee is to the flower, so is the superior man to his principles."

"All things are full of gods."

"To be is to be perceived; existence requires observation."

"Water adapts to its container; so too must the wise adapt to circumstance."

"The philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not wisdom's owner."

"The mind is like water; it takes the shape of what contains it."

"The usefulness of a cup is in its emptiness."

"Stop thinking, and end your problems."

"The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name."

"The reason why the world lacks unity and lies in chaos is because people have adopted different standards of value."

"To understand the limitation of things is to understand the unlimited."

"The root of Heaven is beneath the Earth and the root of Earth is beneath Heaven."

"That which is one cannot be many."

"Motion is impossible."

"The many cannot exist because they would have to be both finite and infinite."

"If motion exists, the unmoved mover must exist."

"The arrow in flight is at rest."

"The finite cannot contain the infinite."

"To move is to be in a place where you are not."

"The self is an illusion created by constant change."

"All differences are illusions."