Philosophy Quotes

"I have always been quite a cosmopolitan."

"Criticism is the science of judging works of art."

"The universal does not exist without the particular."

"Good faith is the foundation of civilization."

"The soul is the seat of wisdom and power."

"Every man has a natural desire to believe that life means something."

"Competition is the survival of the fittest, but cooperation is the survival of the species."

"A person is smart. People are dumb."

"Fire and Ice speaks to the duality of human nature."

"I am not concerned with poetry. I am concerned with life."

"Existence itself does not require justification."

"Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation."

"Identity is theft."

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

"There is no there there."

"I am no longer interested in cause and effect."

"Hands are a sore subject with me and I do not like to see mine or anyone else's hands."

"Why is it that in this country it is not better to be dead."

"I do not really think that anything one does matters very much."

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

"I am the window between two worlds."

"The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self-awareness."

"Human nature is the most interesting thing we can study."

"Philosophy without action is just words."

"Philosophy becomes wisdom through action."

"Thought and feeling are not hostile, but complementary."

"In my beginning is my end. In my end is my beginning."

"A living thought is that which can alter our life."

"No man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape him."

"No ideas but in things."