Philosophy Quotes

"There is something in the human breast that hungers for beauty and for meaning."

"The most important journey is the one inward."

"To be human is to struggle, and in struggling, to find meaning."

"There is no there there."

"Suppose no one paid any attention to that sophie."

"Argument is to me the air I breathe."

"The moment it has all gone nothing matters."

"Identity is funny being American."

"We are dying from civilization and its discontents."

"The mind is its own place; it can make a heaven of hell or a hell of heaven."

"A man's character is his fate."

"The human heart contains multitudes of conflicting desires and truths."

"To understand a woman is to understand the paradoxes within her own heart."

"A word is a symbol, and its meaning is arbitrary."

"The collective intelligence of a system is as deep as its weakest understanding."

"My philosophy is not new, but it is true."

"Society is a mechanism for the survival of the species."

"To be radical is to go to the root; that which is radical is founded in reality."

"Every reform must be built on human nature; otherwise it will fail."

"To understand a man you must know what he was in the beginning."

"A man's rights depend upon his usefulness to society."

"There is no such thing as a lost cause because there is no such thing as a gained one."

"Whatever is true is illusory; whatever is illusory is true."

"The fundamental questions of life are ultimately unanswerable."

"There cannot be an adequate definition of a person."

"Only in a world of thought does perfectibility exist."

"The small towns hold the secrets of the American soul."

"The writer observes; the artist interprets; the philosopher questions."

"No man ever understands quite his own artful attempts to feint out of the original sin."

"Ideation is the gourmet's return to action."