Philosophy Quotes

"Little lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee?"

"To possess these properties, in a word, is to possess the property of possessing."

"We do not own anything; we are merely stewards of what we have been given."

"The purpose of life is to become more fully human."

"The local is the universal when seen with enough clarity."

"We live in the shadow of what we cannot fully comprehend or articulate."

"The bridge between consciousness and meaning is always being constructed."

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

"The poet must create a supreme fiction that will satisfy the human need for meaning in an indifferent universe."

"Thought is false hemispheres; how shall we reconcile the contradictions of our nature?"

"The marriage of imagination and reality creates all meaningful human experience."

"Philosophy is asking the right questions, not finding easy answers."

"Every person contains universes of unexplored depth."

"Philosophy examines what we take for granted."

"Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead."

"To be able to see everything from the social point of view is to be able to understand it."

"Philosophy is the guide to living."

"Philosophy questions what others accept."

"Tradition and progress need not be enemies."

"Philosophy asks the questions worth asking."

"A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; it is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future."

"What we think, we become."

"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

"One does not have to come down on the side of fire or water."

"The real is only that which cannot be otherwise."

"The unexamined life is not worth living, but the over-examined life is exhausting."

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

"Philosophy is the art of being wise."

"Philosophy without action remains merely abstract thought."