Philosophy Quotes

"If we don't know life, how can we know death?" "Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honours depend upon heaven." "The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort." "You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop." "The Prophets accept all agony and trust it. For the water has never feared the fire." "Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge." "Be an empty page, untouched by words." "The source of now is here." "Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls." "Whatever purifies you is the right path, I will not try to define it." "The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you." "All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace." "It’s an understanding that you can’t have life without death, can’t have light without the dark, right? So it’s an acceptance of that." "It takes a long time to become young." "The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? " "Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions. " "Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima." "The hidden harmony is better than the obvious." "Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth." "What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now."