Philosophy Quotes

"Strike through the mask!"

"What is due goes out of this world the moment we come into it."

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

"I can forgive anything except what I cannot forgive."

"I am afraid I cannot claim to be a cynic. What I am is a realist."

"The mind has its own geography."

"There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel nobody else has a right to blame us."

"Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul."

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

"For there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men"

"Some men are born with the eternal worm that gnaws within them"

"Where the great sun shines, there is also the greatest shadow"

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

"Every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other"

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

"A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret"

"Every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other"

"There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies."

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror."

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

"To define is to limit."

"The soul is a terrible reality."

"All men are bad in the same way, and all the worse for that."

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

"I suppose society is wonderfully delightful."

"The only immorality is not to do what one likes."

"Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike."

"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."

"The whole act is immutably decreed. It was rehearsed by thee and me a billion times."