Philosophy Quotes

"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man" "Language is the dress of thought" "The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution" "Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death." "The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects." "Art is never finished, only abandoned." "You only live once, that's the motto, YOLO" "What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning." "Understanding means throwing away your knowledge." "I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on" "The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless." "Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations." "Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal. For the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever." "Everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality. Not God in a politically kingly sense, but God in the sense of being the self, the deep down basic whatever there is. And you're all that... only you're pretending you're not." "We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree." "The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing." "The idea that complex systems with skin in the game are antifragile is crucial to building a sound view of reality" "Missing a train is only painful if you run after it" "Time is the soul of the world" "The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. "