Philosophy Quotes

"Perhaps the greatest paradox is that we create order to escape chaos, yet chaos defines our existence."

"The universe punishes the arrogant and rewards the humble."

"Philosophy is the art of not knowing what one speaks of with eloquence."

"Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities."

"It were not best that we should all think alike."

"Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits."

"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)"

"I have said that the soul is not more than the body, and I have said that the body is not more than the soul."

"I am large, I contain multitudes."

"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast."

"Nothing is but thinking makes it so."

"Thought is the shadow of reality."

"Madness is undefinable."

"We are double-faced beings."

"A man's sanity is his ability to recognize horrors."

"What lies beneath the surface determines the reality above it."

"We are all of us more or less the creatures of prejudice, and it is therefore a matter of the greatest importance to examine our prejudices."

"The mind is a restless instrument, forever seeking and never satisfied."

"The human heart is capable of both great cruelty and infinite compassion."

"The voice of conscience is the truest guide to right action."

"The mind is the effect, not the cause."

"All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature."

"I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason."

"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague."

"All religion, my friend, is simply evolved witchcraft."

"Passion without wisdom is mere tyranny."

"Mystery is the root of all religion and all philosophy."

"Despair is the only gateway to enlightenment."

"The greatest journey is inward."

"I am the architect of my own torment."