Philosophy Quotes

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

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

"Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic."

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

"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things."

"The ugliness of the world is only a very pale reflection of its wickedness."

"To define is to limit."

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

"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an estimate of our national wealth"

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

"Every soul has its own key to unlock the mysteries of the human heart"

"In the great machine of society, each person is but a small wheel"

"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion."

"The heart is a strange instrument."

"We are not heavenly natures; we are not saints all of us"

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

"Some certain significance lurks in all things, or in nothing"

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

"To define is to limit."

"I am afraid that there are moments when I cannot bear the mystery of your soul."

"Why is it that one runs to one's ruin because one runs away from it?"

"The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought, and sold, and bartered away."

"Better to be without logic than without feeling"

"Fanatics are all men of talent; but the talent is always perverted"

"Progress has slain many a good man"

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

"How much of the impurity of his life is traceable to this influence"

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

"All are born equal; but some are equaller than others."

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