Philosophy Quotes

"The fundamental principles of civilization are that they are human."

"Confucius said nothing of the mysteries, of miracles, of the way of heaven."

"Language is a poor medium for what human beings wish to communicate."

"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are allowed to remain children all our lives."

"The world is not just the physical world one can see, but all the emotional undercurrents."

"The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg."

"Philosophy is useless if it doesn't improve how we live."

"I have always been between two worlds - the world of practical things and the world of dreams and imagination."

"I have studied the faces of common people and found divinity there."

"The soul of a nation lives in its workers and dreamers."

"The world needs more poets and fewer politicians."

"The greatest battles are fought within the human heart."

"There is no there there."

"Action and reaction are equal and opposite directions."

"I do believe that the existence of everything depends upon the existence of something else."

"In the beginning, there was no beginning."

"There is singularly nothing that makes a difference a difference in beginning and in the middle and in ending."

"Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting."

"The simplest questions are the hardest to answer."

"The mind is a strange instrument to have."

"Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice."

"What we live by we can afford to give away and we can afford to die by."

"The best is enemy to the good."

"Every moment in the past determines the future."

"What we call the 'beginning' is often the end."

"End is where we start from."

"The self is constructed through language."

"Most men are not philosophers, most are simply victims of circumstance."

"The past informs the present; the present shapes the future."

"To be human is to be accountable to humanity."