Philosophy Quotes

"It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly." "The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation" "There is a kind of beauty in imperfection" "Watch your thoughts, for they will become actions. Watch your actions, for they’ll become... habits. Watch your habits, for they will forge your character. Watch your character, for it will make your destiny" "All men are by nature born equally free and independent" "Some may never live but the crazy never die" "A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both." "Feeling is what you get for thinking the way you do." "We should not ask what is wrong with the world, for that diagnosis has already been given. Rather we should ask, what has happened to the salt and light" "Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity" "Those who are wise find joy in water, those who are benevolent find joy in mountains" "The petty man is in constant distress; the superior man is always at ease" "Music is the best means we have of digesting time" "Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people" "In what language does rain fall over tormented cities" "Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made" "Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity" "Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination" "Dare to know" "All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason There is nothing higher than reason"