Philosophy Quotes

"To live alone is the fate of all great souls." "The only dream worth having is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead." "All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare" "All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone" "Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical" "Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed" "The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself." "Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality." "The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence." "We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever." "The beautiful is always bizarre" "Always be a poet, even in prose" "In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates - and isolation brings its own reward" "Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal" "A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence" "The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster" "Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them" "It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom" "Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will" "Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves"