Philosophy Quotes

"Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me." "Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law." "We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without." "Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play." "The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death" "We inhabit a language rather than a country" "Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets" "Every other is completely other" "If men were angels, no government would be necessary." "Philosophy is common sense with big words." "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" "The more we refine our understanding of God to make the concept plausible, the more it seems laughable" "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world." "A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it." "There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do." "A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither." "Time is the substance I am made of Time is a river that sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire" "We have confused the real and the extraordinary to the point where we no longer know which is which" "Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are"