Philosophy Quotes

"One must accept the chaos of the world and find order within it."

"All opposites are necessary for the creation of the whole."

"The perfect man has no self; the spiritual man has no achievement; the sage has no name."

"To understand the world, first understand yourself."

"The mind like a mirror reflects the world without judgment."

"To know yourself is to know ten thousand things."

"All motion returns to stillness; all stillness contains motion."

"The self is the greatest illusion and the greatest truth."

"Transform your mind and the world transforms."

"The way to do is to be."

"The superior man seeks within himself; the common man seeks within others."

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

"The superior man adjusts to the world; the inferior man adjusts the world to himself."

"The noble man thinks always of virtue; the base man thinks of his comfort."

"The contemplative mind sees divinity in all natural phenomena."

"The universe speaks to those who learn its language through observation."

"Philosophy is the practice of wonder sustained into maturity."

"Let no one ignorant of geometry enter; the same applies to the soul."

"Philosophy is the love of wisdom, and wisdom is the love of truth."

"Simplicity in form and vastness in thought."

"If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place."

"Pursue Tao, and you become Tao. Pursue virtue, and you become virtuous. Pursue loss, and you will lose."

"Vain is the word of a philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man."

"A philosopher who does not use philosophy to heal the soul speaks in vain."

"Motion is impossible, for if something moves, it must move either in the place where it is or in the place where it is not; but it cannot move in the place where it is (for it is at rest there) nor in the place where it is not (for it is not there)."

"The dichotomy of all things reveals that completion is eternally deferred."

"To traverse a distance, one must first traverse half the distance, and half of that, and so on infinitely."

"Being must be eternal, unchanging, and indivisible—anything less is not truly being."

"Consider: if motion exists, then what explains the infinite divisibility of space through which something moves?"

"If there were truly many things, they would each have to be infinite in extent."