Philosophy Quotes

"To understand conformity is to understand something fundamental about the human condition."

"The experiments demonstrate that humans are fundamentally social beings, but social in ways we do not fully understand."

"Mind is the ruler of all things."

"The need for superiority is the fundamental fact of human nature."

"The depths of darkness to which vice can bring mankind far exceeds my power to describe."

"The line between good and evil is permeable and almost everyone has the capacity for both."

"Evil is not a character trait; it is a product of circumstances and systems."

"The Lucifer Effect describes how good people descend into evil through a series of gradual steps."

"I would prefer an interesting vice to an indifferent virtue."

"Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed."

"One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life."

"The world is at odds with itself."

"There is something implanted in our hearts which our reason contradicts."

"What art thou, O man, in the infinite depths of the universe?"

"We desire truth, and find in ourselves only uncertainty."

"To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher."

"The weather and my mood have little connection."

"The finite exists only through the infinite."

"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."

"A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably."

"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language."

"Logic must take care of itself."

"It is correct to say 'I think' but not 'I think that I think,' and certainly not 'I think that I exist.'"

"What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the bottle."

"The picture theory of meaning."

"Language disguises thought."

"In order to draw a limit to thinking, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable."

"The task of philosophy is to work out the problems that arise when we misunderstand the use of our words."

"We feel that even when all possible scientific questions have been answered, the problems of life remain completely untouched."

"Mysticism is not how the world is, but that it is."