Philosophy Quotes

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

"Argument is the worst sort of conversation."

"Clever people are good at finding reasons to explain why something they forgot or failed at wasn't really their fault."

"I have nothing to say to people who talk about the weather."

"Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets rid of."

"Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives."

"To understand human nature, one must observe what people do, not merely what they say."

"In the space between expectation and reality lives the potential for transformation."

"The supernatural often mirrors the natural desires we are too cautious to admit."

"The world's cruelty often comes not from malice but from thoughtlessness."

"The pursuit of happiness through consumption is the pursuit of a shadow."

"Philosophy begins where certainty ends."

"Philosophy is the art of asking better questions."

"Language is the dress of thought."

"There are few situations in which virtue is not aided by self-deception."

"One cannot reflect deeply upon a matter without the proper tools of contemplation."

"We are dying every moment; it is not a future event but a present reality."

"To think ill of mankind and to wish them well is a contradiction impossible to be maintained."

"The heart of man is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked."

"The morning is wiser than the evening."

"How inconsistent is man, how strange."

"Every human heart holds infinite depths."

"Every heart contains both light and shadow."

"The human capacity for both good and evil is boundless."

"We are the sum of our choices and our circumstances."

"If you have formed a Circle to go into, Go into it yourself & See how you would do."

"Mock on, Mock on Voltaire, Rousseau; Mock on, Mock on; 'tis all in vain!"

"Reason or Imagination? Which is the Lord & which is the Servant?"

"Man has no Body distinct from his Soul."

"A soul is a world in itself."