Philosophy Quotes

"Every person contains multitudes; we are all more complex than we appear."

"The unexamined life, even if peaceful, lacks the richness of meaning."

"In every heart, there exists a capacity for both tremendous kindness and terrible cruelty."

"The mind is the great poem of winter."

"The real is only the base, but it is the base."

"The pleasures of merely circulating are the same as the pleasures of thinking."

"What we believe is not necessarily what we think."

"The mind of man is always in confusion; we cannot think of one thing without thinking of another."

"There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't."

"To live in the world but not of it is the calling of the poetic mind."

"To be nothing is to know what one is."

"If one is a metaphysician one tries to accomplish the purpose of metaphysics."

"We perceive things not as they are but as we are."

"To speak clearly is to remain within the obvious."

"The life of the mind is the only life that is real."

"The mind must listen to itself."

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."

"The universe is full of wonderful things and greater mysteries."

"The world is made of circles, not lines."

"Each of us is destined to draw our own conclusions about what we believe."

"Conventions are rules created by society to maintain order and control."

"We are defined not by our circumstances, but by our choices."

"Village life teaches us that every person carries stories worthy of examination."

"The mundane holds as much significance as the extraordinary, if examined with care."

"What appears as eccentricity may be the birth of authenticity."

"A life examined is a life not wasted, though the examination itself may be painful."

"I love humanity but I hate people."

"It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly."

"I am my own salvation or my own damnation."

"The world is cruel, but there is beauty in the cruelty."