Philosophy Quotes

"It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail." "Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations." "Our world is fast changing, but our basic ability to reason has remained largely unchanged for millennia." "True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future" "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman" "It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for acting" "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." "People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." "Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom." "Once you label me you negate me." "Is there no way out of the mind?" "Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve" "To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible." "The condition of man is a condition of war of everyone against everyone" "Leisure is the mother of philosophy" "The right of nature is the liberty each man hath to use his own power as he will himself for the preservation of his own nature that is to say of his own life" "Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion" "The name of the rose is a mere symptom of our nostalgia for a time when names meant something." "Seizing the day, amidst its acceleration and decay" "To see a World in a Grain of Sand and a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour"