Philosophy Quotes

"It’s not as if our lives are divided simply into light and dark. There's shadowy middle-ground." "The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian." "A man may not always eat and drink what is good for him, nor act as his reason directs." "Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it." "Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are a burden and a torment to him." "Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star." "The object of the superior man is truth." "He who learns, but does not think, is lost!" "The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat." "Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream." "Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil." "All men are by nature equal, made from the same earth by one Workman." "The darkness declares the glory of light" "Each virtue is a vice if it proceeds from a false end " "Philosophy is the love of wisdom and wisdom is the knowledge of things which are divine and human " "Boredom is the biggest disease in the world, darling." "I'm possessed by love, but isn't everybody?" "The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition." "Logic and sermons never convince." "To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts."