Philosophy Quotes

"What things real are there, but imponderable thoughts?"

"The world was not made for such as I."

"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other"

"Pleasure and pain have equal dominion over all life"

"We are all creatures of the moment"

"Memory and habit are the only proofs of existence"

"A solemn consideration"

"There is no such thing as a good influence. All influence is immoral."

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror."

"The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."

"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."

"I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it simply a tragedy."

"Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others."

"Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws of human nature."

"Do you really believe that it is weakness that yields to temptation?"

"Whatever we do, we're likely to do it wrong."

"We are all prisoners of our own making."

"Some certain significance lurks in all things, else all things are little worth."

"Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance."

"Every man carries within him an entire universe of wants and desires."

"There is a passion for restlessness in the human heart"

"To define is to limit."

"I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world."

"Self-denial is simply a method by which man arrests his progress."

"The more I see of the world, the more I am dissatisfied with it."

"And that is all the morality I am to expect from you."

"I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or ought to be an existence of yours beyond you."

"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other"

"Darkness and light, night and day, life and death—all are but shadows of greater truths"

"Some certain significance lurks in all things, else all things are little worth."