Philosophy Quotes

"The human capacity for self-deception is boundless."

"Everything we believe is built on foundations of belief, not fact."

"I am defined by my choices, not my circumstances."

"I am a creature of habit and of logic"

"I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues"

"Evil comes not from without but from within ourselves"

"A man may have his private convictions and yet know the game is up"

"I have my own views about luck."

"The human heart is capable of great darkness and great light."

"What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics."

"The mind is capable of believing what it chooses to believe."

"Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace."

"I have been a soldier, a judge, a man."

"True journey is return"

"A man who can't see the ambiguity of his position is in trouble"

"We do not own the future; we merely inherit it"

"The tests don't measure what it means to be human."

"I realize that intelligence and worth are not the same thing."

"I've learned that the human experience isn't just thinking—it's feeling."

"We are merely pawns in someone's game."

"London is a cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained."

"It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside."

"A man's ego is his constant companion, Watson."

"Ah, the games we play are nothing compared to the game of life itself."

"The law of existence is struggle."

"Individual and society: the cell and the organism."

"We are our own enemy."

"The social organism develops in organisms, not organisms in a social organism."

"The wall between the worlds is not stone or steel."

"Intelligence breeds nothing but suffering."