Philosophy Quotes

"The Tao that can be named is not the eternal Tao."

"If you realize that all things are of one body, what distance is there between you and infinity?"

"Forgetting how to dig the well does not mean the water ceases to flow."

"The Tao nourishes all life without claiming to do so."

"The ten thousand things are one; the one is the ten thousand things."

"To return to simplicity, one must release complexity."

"All things arise from the Tao; all things return to the Tao."

"We cannot live only for ourselves. We must consider our contribution to society."

"Our beliefs create our reality more than our circumstances do."

"Philosophy teaches us how to live."

"Philosophy begins with wonder."

"Philosophy is just trying to understand what you already know."

"Cynicism is the easiest position, and therefore the laziest."

"Civilization is a method of living, an attitude toward the problems of life."

"We become cynical not from experience, but from the misreporting of experience."

"What do you owe the world? Nothing. The world was here first."

"To imagine a language means to imagine a form of life."

"One cannot adequately demand anything of man."

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

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

"Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to observe how it does it."

"Ethics cannot be articulated."

"Language is a labyrinth of paths."

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

"There is no such thing as luck."

"The picture theory of meaning has become a fixture of modern philosophy."

"A sign is made an object of use."

"We cannot think what we cannot think; so what we cannot think we cannot say either."

"I want to say that whatever I see could be otherwise."

"What can be said at all can be said clearly; what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence."