Philosophy Quotes

"Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life."

"Attachment to life is the fruit of the illusion of permanence."

"Everything that is real is metaphorical."

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world but the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself."

"The infinite is in the finite."

"It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom."

"There is evil in every human heart that may be brought out under proper circumstances."

"Young persons, through their capacity to wonder, are the true philosophers."

"The invisible world presses upon the visible at every moment."

"Skepticism is the agent of reason."

"The nature of a thing is exactly what it was made for."

"Every passion leaves traces in the soul."

"We are all wounded creatures trying to find wholeness."

"We are spiritually needy creatures pretending to be self-sufficient."

"We are all flawed, and in our flaws lies our humanity."

"We cannot know ourselves until we know the depths of our own darkness."

"We are all searching for home, though we never left it."

"We are all searching for redemption in different ways."

"The greatest journey is the one inward."

"Without the Greeks, we would not have Greek thought, which means that without the Greeks, we would not think at all."

"I am incapable of defining metaphysics, but it suffices to say that it is what everyone can understand by the word."

"The mediocre mind is incapable of appreciating the greatness of the exceptional mind."

"Existence is a series of footnotes to a large work that has been lost."

"The greatest trick a devil ever pulled was convincing us he was evil."

"To live is to suffer; to think about living is to suffer more."

"The mind is a prison, and we are both the jailer and the prisoner."

"Man is not evil; he is only sad."

"I love humanity but I hate humans."

"Mediocrity is the natural state of man."

"Philosophy is the luxury of those with enough pain to ask questions."