Philosophy Quotes

"We are all sick with the disease of consciousness."

"The real horror is not in the darkness but in the light."

"We are condemned to make meaning from the chaos of existence."

"The human soul is infinitely more complex than any system can contain."

"Philosophy is the art of asking better questions, not finding final answers."

"What is character but the determination of incident and what is incident but the illustration of character?"

"A man's destiny is his character."

"The very principle of life is commitment."

"Ideas are, in truth, forces."

"When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself."

"Consciousness is an illimitable power."

"Every man has his own characters."

"Character is action and not motive."

"I came into the world asking why and I leave asking why."

"I have never been able to define the word 'honor' in a way that made sense to me."

"Principles have no real force except when one is well fed."

"All that most maddens and torments in the dumb aggravations of the world."

"To be something under the sun and not know what you are, is a predicament not without ludicrousness."

"Hell is an idea first, and we are all builders."

"All philosophy is but a remembering of things we somehow knew."

"Every man casts a shadow."

"The greatest mystery is not the universe, but human intention."

"There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought."

"Sorrow is the cement that holds society together."

"What we call real is a particular pattern of sensory experience."

"In every human heart there is a tomb and a divine flame."

"There are persons who are not in the catalogue of the known virtues."

"The mass of humanity lives lives of quiet desperation."

"In matters of taste and conduct, there is no disputing."

"We are all dead already; we're just too busy to notice."