Philosophy Quotes

"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude" "The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them." "Man is what he believes." "There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality." "Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist." "Compassion is the basis of morality." "Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world." "Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom." "The world is my idea." "The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him." "The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom." "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."