Philosophy Quotes

"The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that we do."

"The unexamined life is not worth living, and the unwritten thought is not worth having."

"Hemingway noted that drinking wine with lunch is the only civilized thing to do."

"Hemingway believed real seriousness comes from thinking of things in bed at night."

"A person's worth is not measured by their possessions."

"Nothing in the world is as interesting as people."

"There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do."

"In his heart a man must accept the logic of his existence."

"We do not know whether we are the first world, or the last world."

"A person either is or isn't. There's no in between."

"Every person has an internal landscape as complex as any external geography."

"Every person carries within them the capacity for both great good and great harm."

"Every man believes himself the center of his own universe, and therein lies his greatest weakness."

"The study of human nature reveals that we are creatures of contradiction and paradox."

"The greatest deception is that we control our own destinies."

"The hunger for meaning is deeper than the hunger for bread."

"In every man exists the capacity for both hero and villain; circumstance determines which emerges."

"There is no such thing as a necessary evil."

"We have been so preoccupied with denying that we are savage that we have had little time to learn to be civilized."

"The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves but in our attitude toward them."

"Men are not the measure of all things."

"The nature of good is to rejoice and expand; of evil to hate and to contract."

"Philosophy teaches us how to think, not what to think."

"We are all ruled by invisible forces beneath the surface of our consciousness."

"The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators."

"The root of most social problems is the pretense of certainty."

"Philosophy is the practice of asking better questions."

"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves."

"There are some things about ourselves we can't know."

"There is a line you must not cross, and yet you do cross it."