Philosophy Quotes

"The individual stands in absolute relation to the absolute."

"One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical, for the paradox is the source of the passionate thinking."

"Despair is the sickness unto death."

"The self is a relation which relates itself to itself."

"The individual is not the measure of all things."

"God creates humans in His image and humans repay the compliment by creating God in theirs."

"The absurdity lies in the relation between the finite self and the infinite God."

"God has caused all things that enter into the world to be born in pairs of opposites."

"The task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees."

"Every individual human being is absolutely different from every other human being."

"The contradiction between power and freedom is irreducible."

"Philosophy asks the questions that make us most human."

"Philosophy begins in wonder and ends in understanding."

"The human heart is the compass of the soul."

"The more I think about it, the more I realize that being human is a peculiar condition filled with contradictions."

"I am a part of all that I have met."

"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness."

"We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole."

"Every person has their own journey; comparison is the death of contentment."

"We are shaped not by our circumstances but by our response to them."

"Each person is an entire world unto themselves."

"Philosophy is the art of asking better questions."

"Philosophy teaches us how to live."

"Philosophy questions everything."

"Philosophy teaches us to question our assumptions."

"The specific character of despair is precisely this: it is unaware of being despair."

"The conclusions of passion are the only convincing conclusions."

"The tyrant dies and his rule ends; the martyr dies and his rule begins."

"It is impossible to exist without passion."

"The deepest form of despair is despair at not being conscious of being in despair."