Philosophy Quotes

"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" "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream" "The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague" "There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion" "Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest" "The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers" "Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence" "The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most" "Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know" "To have opinions is to sell the essence of today for the essence of tomorrow." "Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates." "Time and tide wait for no man"