Philosophy Quotes

"Philosophy is lived, not merely studied."

"The ordinary moment contains infinite depths if we learn to look."

"The human heart contains contradictions that defy logic."

"The body remembers what the mind has forgotten."

"Every generation must discover for itself what it means to be human."

"Every person carries within them an entire universe."

"The human heart contains infinite capacity for both cruelty and kindness."

"Philosophy begins in wonder and ends in understanding."

"We are responsible not only for our actions but for our inactions as well."

"Philosophy begins with wonder and ends with compassion."

"Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions"

"If this is a man, then we must ask what makes us human"

"The human spirit has an infinite capacity for both good and evil"

"To be conscious is to be responsible"

"We are all capable of both cruelty and kindness"

"The leopard, the lion, the creatures of every sort, each one aware of the limits of his own nature, combine to create harmony. It is only man who desires to overpass his own nature."

"A man who has never doubted his own beliefs is a man who has never truly thought."

"Society functions through the acceptance of necessary illusions."

"The devil is not in evil; he is in banality."

"The only thing that matters is the story you tell yourself about yourself."

"We are prisoners of light, forever seeking shadows to understand ourselves."

"We decorate our prisons with flowers and call them homes."

"We are all broken vessels through which light shines."

"We build walls to protect ourselves from connection we desperately desire."

"I am what remains when everything has been taken away."

"The margins of society contain more truth than the center."

"To understand poverty is to understand the soul of a nation."

"The body is the first text of politics."

"The margins contain the truth that the center denies."

"To be human is to be in perpetual conflict with society."