Philosophy Quotes

"The only truth is that all human yearning is futile."

"No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart."

"I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life."

"I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I believe my liver is diseased."

"The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular."

"The mind of a superior being should be above morality."

"We are the slaves of our sensations, our feelings, and our passions."

"Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man."

"Man needs the irrational, just as much as he needs the rational."

"Sin is not in actions but in the intentions that drive them."

"The mind can justify anything the heart desires."

"Every person carries within them the potential for both divine and demonic acts."

"The heart speaks a language that reason cannot understand."

"She confused sentiment with virtue."

"The human heart is a bottomless pit of secrets"

"I am not mad; I am perfectly sane. It is society that is mad."

"The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular."

"Consciousness is both blessing and curse."

"So it goes."

"Have you read The Rise of the Coloreds in Civilization?"

"I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life."

"Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of another."

"The provincial mind sees no further than its own steeple."

"Mediocrity is not a sin; it is the human condition."

"The soul is more dangerous than the body."

"I am still afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth."

"Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues."

"The world is made up of compromise."

"I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him; he has created him in his own image and likeness."

"Consciousness is an illness."