Philosophy Quotes

"Philosophy is common sense in a dinner jacket."

"The mind is capable of far more than the body's limitations suggest."

"I have always resisted the notion that poetry should be didactic or preachy."

"Aesthetic experience can be a form of moral instruction."

"To be human is to be caught between memory and desire."

"To be attentive to language is to be attentive to being itself."

"Language is the home of being, and the poet is its custodian."

"Language shapes thought, and thought shapes language, in a constant dialogue."

"Philosophy is the art of asking better questions, not providing easy answers."

"Philosophy begins where certainty ends and wonder begins."

"I think we might discover that our personality is more a physical thing than we think it is, that perhaps what we are able to do is to create the physical equivalent of whatever the personality may be"

"Every human being is a problem in search of a solution"

"The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next"

"Every person carries a universe within them"

"Philosophy is the art of asking better questions"

"Exile teaches you what home really means."

"To be human is to be caught between hope and sorrow."

"To be a person is to be constantly engaged in the work of self-creation."

"We are all exiles in some way, searching for home in the places we inhabit."

"The examined life is not always happy, but it is always rich."

"The worst of crimes is not to think at all."

"I am as Marxist as I am Christian which is not to say I am very much of either."

"We are all immigrants in the landscape of our own consciousness."

"The examined moment contains infinite possibility."

"Philosophy begins where wonder ends and questions begin"

"Philosophy is the search for truth and meaning."

"Philosophy teaches us how to live wisely."

"Every translation is ultimately a betrayal."

"Words are the weights by which the world is measured."

"The mind is its own place."