Wisdom Quotes

"The most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance."

"The mind is everything. What you think, you become."

"To choose is to affirm the value of what we choose."

"If you cannot change your circumstances, you can always change your attitude toward them."

"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious."

"Authenticity requires that we acknowledge our facticity while transcending it."

"One must never lose sight of the world while being lost in thought."

"Reason without passion is empty; passion without reason is blind."

"The good life for humans is the life spent in seeking for the good life for humans."

"Every account of virtue must itself depend on some account of human nature."

"Human action is dependent on practical reasoning, and practical reasoning is dependent on virtue."

"To live morally is to live in accordance with a vision of human flourishing."

"Virtues are not arbitrary cultural inventions but are necessary for human flourishing."

"To reject tradition altogether is to cut oneself off from the sources of moral understanding."

"A virtue is a quality the possession and exercise of which tends to enable us to achieve those goods."

"Virtues can only be understood within the context of a tradition of practice."

"To understand virtue we must understand it within a narrative context."

"The virtuous person judges rightly about what truly constitutes the good."

"A telos is not something imposed from outside but is intrinsic to the practices and forms of life."

"Moral understanding requires not just abstract knowledge but practical wisdom."

"Virtues are not individual possessions but social achievements within traditions."

"The virtuous person understands that the good cannot be pursued in isolation."

"Virtues are excellences which enable human flourishing within shared traditions."

"To understand meaning, we must understand the reference-fixing intentions of speakers."

"Rigid designation explains how we can talk about the same object counterfactually."

"We project our modal intuitions onto the world at peril of empirical error."

"Intuition pumps are legitimate philosophical tools when they probe real conceptual structures."

"The semantics of propositional attitudes reveals the structure of thought itself."

"We can know facts about possible worlds through rigorous philosophical analysis."

"The same object can be essentially rigid yet accidentally vague in its identity."