Philosophy Quotes

"Man has no Body distinct from his Soul for that call'd Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses."

"Without Contraries is no progression. Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate are necessary to Human existence."

"Cunning and Malice are not human Nature; they are exceptions from it."

"Do what you will, this Life's a Fiction And is made up of Contradiction."

"God is not a Mathematical Diagram."

"Man has a Body; that Body is a portion of Soul."

"Abstinence sows sand all over the ruddy limbs and flaming hair."

"The Ancient Tradition that the world will be consumed in fire at the end of six thousand years is true."

"The Infinite alone is real and true; finite things exist as mere modes or modifications of the Infinite."

"We are all born mad. Some remain so."

"The deadliest errors are the best-feathered and most plausible."

"The great wits among mankind appear, to their contemporaries, as fools."

"Life and the Universe are but as shadows cast by the Infinite Light upon the screen of time."

"The doctrines and dogmas of religion have been the main obstacles to human progress."

"To understand the universe, one must first understand oneself."

"There is no firmament to the universe save thought."

"Nothing in the world is entirely good or entirely evil."

"Philosophy teaches us to question everything and believe nothing blindly."

"Philosophy asks not just how to live, but why we should live."

"Stars are souls"

"What is it all but a trouble of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns"

"In this poor world 'tis but a sham"

"All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind."

"There may be heaven; there must be hell. Meantime, there is our earth here."

"The world is truly a most strange place."

"A man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills."

"What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?"

"We live by symbols, not by truth."

"You cannot step twice into the same river."

"I am the sum of my actions."