Philosophy Quotes

"The rules of common sense are the rules of truth" "There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words" "The mind acts upon the body, and the body upon the mind, by laws unknown to us" "Philosophy is the light of the soul and should be pursued by all rational beings" "There’s no such thing as a new idea, it’s a new perspective" "The proper study of mankind is the science of design" "Truth is in things, and not in words" "The past is the terror, and the future time itself" "Life’s a voyage that’s homeward-bound" "Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself " "Man is an amphibious creature – a being who cannot live in the water and cannot live out of it " "Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking" "carpe diem" "I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human." "Knowledge comes with death's release." "He not busy being born is busy dying" "There are things known and things unknown, and in between are the doors" "People fear death even more than pain. It’s strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death" "I shall not wholly die; much of me will escape Death" "It is not merely to live, but to live well"