Philosophy Quotes

"Passion is not the enemy of reason; it is the very thing that gives reason meaning."

"I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man."

"I am not extraordinary; I am ordinary."

"We create our own hell."

"I am not mad; I am simply not of your world."

"Philosophy teaches us to accept what we cannot change."

"I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man."

"All is lawful if there is no God."

"Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced."

"If there is no God, then everything is permitted"

"I believe that I do not understand the meaning of crime and madness"

"I cannot embrace suffering in advance for the sake of an idea"

"I would never, never consent to suffer for the happiness of others"

"The tragedy of life is not death, but meaninglessness"

"Of all the confusing and marvelous inhabitants of this earth, none seems to me more deeply rooted in futility."

"Philosophy teaches us to question everything."

"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought."

"One cannot escape one's own nature."

"The soul craves what the body cannot achieve."

"I am not rebelling against my maker; I simply refuse to accept his creation."

"The human heart contains both heaven and hell."

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

"What is past is past; we cannot change it"

"What is the use of philosophy when the heart is breaking?"

"Our Russian soul is wide, it can contain all contradictions"

"The human heart is a battlefield where good and evil wage eternal war"

"Reality is the great deceiver of the idealist"

"Vanity and desire are the roots of all suffering"

"I am no longer a Christian, but a Jew—a Mahometan—a Hindoo—a Buddhist—a Mahometan—a Christian—a Jew."

"Consciousness is the greatest torment available to mankind"