Philosophy Quotes

"No path is wrong if it leads to awakening"

"My friend, I am not what the mass of men are, yet I am one with them."

"Oftentimes we call life that which is only the shadow of life, and we call the shadow life."

"Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished."

"We put our heads down and keep moving forward, without stopping to ask why."

"We're so wrapped up with egotistical things, you don't think about how you're going to die."

"It's written in the Soul of the World that we are all connected to each other"

"All grown-ups were once children, although few of them remember it"

"Grown-ups are certainly very odd"

"The business of important men is to engage in commerce"

"Only children understand what is important"

"The conscience is a merciless judge."

"We are masters of our own destiny until we are not."

"A man's actions define his ultimate worth."

"The heavens are not a place, but a condition."

"We are all murderers at heart."

"All grown-ups were once children, but only few of them remember it"

"Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked."

"Responsibility is the very essence of human existence."

"The meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment."

"I absolutely insist that the logotherapy, including the reorientation it demands, is to be understood as an existential analysis, a procedure in which man is invited to become aware of his responsibility."

"The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected."

"Man's search for meaning is a primary force in his life and not a secondary rationalization of instinctual drives."

"The world has a Soul, and we can access it."

"Life attracts life."

"I sought to experience the meaning of all philosophies and to receive their teachings; but I found that I received nothing."

"We are all murderers in our hearts—some merely act upon it."

"The human conscience is both a strength and a weakness."

"No one is truly innocent—we all carry our sins."

"Of all that is sad, this is the saddest—that one soul when made conscious of life's hunger and inferior, other souls stand around it and keep it hungry and inferior."