Philosophical Thoughts Quotes

"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth." "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." "Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees." "It’s an understanding that you can’t have life without death, can’t have light without the dark, right? So it’s an acceptance of that." "An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought. " "Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar. " "Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?" "Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it – which of these two attitudes is the least destructive? I don’t know." "A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes." "The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends." "There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind"