Philosophy Quotes

"I am not a visionary. I claim to be a practical idealist."

"All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives for itself alone."

"We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole."

"Vilain and saint have the same aspiration, the same powers and the same stature; it is only they use these in different ways."

"Man is not, by nature, inclined to evil."

"The final analysis of the ultimate good desired is happiness and goodness."

"Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."

"The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be."

"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns."

"To be a man is to suffer for others."

"I came to believe that there is no pure good and no pure evil."

"Philosophy is the pursuit of wisdom"

"Philosophy questions everything"

"Memory is the canvas upon which we paint our identities, stroke by stroke."

"The heart knows truths that reason cannot articulate."

"The architecture of society is built from the bricks of individual character."

"The mind is a library; we choose which books to open."

"In the silence between words, the deepest truths reside."

"In every person lives a universe of untold possibility."

"What we call progress is often merely the rearrangement of our chains."

"The invisible often matters more than the visible."

"Philosophy is the art of asking the right questions."

"The philosophical question is always: what am I becoming?"

"Philosophy begins with wonder and ends with transformation."

"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."

"I would say then that, for the purpose of keeping the issues made by the genesis of this war in view, we should not lose sight of another prominent fact—that constitutional questions are not settled by the opinion of any one man, however great."

"The human mind never fully accepts or rejects without pause the judgment of another."

"Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them."

"Every person contains multitudes."

"Identity is a kind of fiction."