Philosophy Quotes

"I respect tradition but embrace innovation."

"Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."

"It is impossible for the same thing to be and not to be at the same time."

"What does it profit a person if they gain the whole world but lose or forfeit their very self?"

"I'm a Rorschach test. People see in me what they see in themselves."

"Life is just a game. Nothing is that serious."

"The mind is everything. What you think, you become."

"I had to learn that money doesn't bring happiness."

"To me, consensus seems to be: the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and politics in search of something in which no one believes."

"We need to create a world where profit and purpose are not in conflict."

"The question of how we use our wealth is a personal decision."

"The more you think about something, the more you manifest it."

"Once we start deceiving ourselves, the rot begins."

"The universe doesn't owe you anything."

"The greatest wealth is wisdom."

"Wisdom is the lost property of the wise."

"I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph."

"The true test of a civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, but the kind of man the country turns out."

"The young have always been disposable. So let us learn to accept this truth."

"I do not wish to be reminded that we are living in an age of sexual permissiveness."

"I have misgivings about institutions—churches, universities, government, and so on—which aspire to act as a conscience for the nation."

"My policies are based not on some economics textbook, but on an observation of human nature."

"Civilization depends on what we inherit, what we achieve, and what we leave."

"Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, likewise this teaching has one taste, the taste of liberation."

"Attachment is the root of suffering."

"The way to Nirvana is not a path that can be walked. It must be understood."

"The mind precedes all phenomena, and is their chief; they are all mind-governed."

"The root of all suffering is the love of self."

"The way to do is to be."

"Philosophy taught me to question and reflect."