Philosophy Quotes

"It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied" "You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving." "Every man is his own doctor of divinity in the last resort." "To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive." "There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy." "To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life." "A nation is born stoic, and dies epicurean." "No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized." "Fools who know their own ignorance choose wisdom over vain knowledge." "I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me" "When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to lose" "Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise." "The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution." "The fundamental reason why the rationalist argument fails is that it presupposes a pleasure which does not exist." "The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible. " "To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." "The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way." "It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true." "The fundamental problem with the human species is an excess." "Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important."