Philosophy Quotes

"The worst mistake is to imagine that you can think about play without thinking about work."

"The young men of my generation are obsessed with the idea of death."

"Immobility is also a form of motion."

"What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the degree of intensity at which he holds it."

"The mind is a mirror; it reflects what it is fed."

"There is no there there."

"Human nature is not black and white but black and grey."

"Everything is the same, but different."

"A man is his conscience; all else is secondary."

"A society that does not value the welfare of all its members is destined to fail."

"We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by drowning in our thoughts."

"Philosophy teaches us to question everything, even our own assumptions."

"A liberal is a man too open-minded to take his own side in a quarrel."

"I am the people—the mob—the crowd—the mass."

"The people is a mule."

"The question is: Is man at last beginning to learn to live together, or will he destroy himself?"

"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started."

"A man is not necessarily wicked because he does not accept prevailing opinions."

"Between the idea and the reality falls the Shadow."

"To be conscious is not to be in time."

"The world is trying the experiment of a civilization without religion."

"There is something in the human spirit that makes us want to build permanence."

"The problem with civilization is that it fears the uncommon man."

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

"The best questions are those that have no single answer."

"We are shaped by what we resist and what we accept."

"The examined life is the only life worth living."

"We are more similar than we are different."

"The individual cannot exist alone, he must be a cell of the body politic."

"All motion is relative and we perceive by the flux."