Philosophy Quotes

"We think we are very sentimental, and we are, but if we ever did reconstruct our lives, even in our imaginations, we would see that we are much more brutal."

"The truth is, we are all a little mad here; it is only a matter of degree."

"We always think about when we shall be happy; but we seldom think about when we shall die."

"Hemingway believed that every person has their own private world that no one can fully enter."

"The marks of immature man are that he wants to die nobly for a cause and that he wants to be killed by his enemies."

"To find meaning in life, one must first accept its fundamental loneliness."

"Hemingway saw every person as a collection of wounds and victories."

"Hemingway believed that experience without reflection is merely wandering."

"That terrible irony that comes from the attempt to rationalize emotion."

"I am nothing but I am a whole lot of nothing."

"There's nothing new under the sun."

"We are all victims of circumstance to some degree, shaped by forces beyond our control."

"The conventional morality of our time will seem absurd to future generations."

"The struggle for existence leaves little room for ethical consideration."

"I have studied human nature with great care, and it reveals itself in small actions."

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

"The very poverty of the poor has a certain richness in its simplicity."

"Memory is the scribe of the soul, but often an unreliable one."

"The architecture of a life is built on the decisions we make in silence."

"The measure of your life is not its length but its depth."

"Philosophy seeks the truth of existence."

"Philosophy is the love of wisdom."

"American culture consists largely of people doing what they think others expect them to do."

"We are all more stupid and pedestrian than anyone would believe, yet all of us contain more depths than anyone can fathom."

"In every person lies a story more interesting than any fiction."

"Ideas are more powerful than armies."

"The measure of a person is not their wealth but their character."

"Philosophy teaches us to question and to think deeply."

"In every action, the intention is what gives it worth."

"Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss."