Philosophy Quotes

"The world is a fine place, but the people in it are mostly fools."

"Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts."

"We make up the rules of life as we go along."

"You cannot distinguish between the sordid and the noble in the human life."

"All people are not equal in their gifts and talents."

"Every man is a victim of the circumstances of his birth."

"If you would judge a man, put him in his circumstances."

"Personality is a series of masks, each appropriate to the moment."

"Every person is a universe unto themselves."

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

"Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues."

"I feel like a man divided."

"The formula for saving a generation was a formula for saving himself."

"The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, but the kind of man the country turns out."

"Women are not wholly good or bad any more than men are."

"We Chinese feel ourselves to be civilized and superior, and are convinced that things foreign are generally inferior."

"Evil is merely privation of good."

"Every revolution ends up with people in different chairs."

"There is always a 'but' in this world, between the motion and the act."

"I am afraid we are not responsible for all our actions."

"The world is a compound of shadows and a dream."

"If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter."

"Every individual has a locus of control - internal or external."

"One part of me is always standing in the wings, ready to take over."

"The unrest of the present time is due to a general disorganization of thought."

"It is the lot of man to suffer - or so it has been said."

"I have always believed that ours is a big country - big enough to have more than one kind of greatness."

"Sometimes I think it must be rather a luxury to be a man."

"Perhaps it is well to be reminded that the end justifies the means only when the means are themselves justified."

"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem."