Philosophy Quotes

"Man is a mystery. It needs to be unraveled, and if you spend your whole life unraveling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being." "The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular." "Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man." "Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms." "It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise." "Effective action is always unjust" "At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough" "An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex" "There are things known and there are things unknown and in between are the doors of perception" "That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history" "Maybe this world is another planet's hell" "I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong" "I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong" "I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring" "The art of art, the glory of expression, and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity" "I exist as I am, that is enough" "Every moment of light and dark is a miracle" "He who has a why to live can bear almost any how" "The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom" "We can know only that we know nothing And that is the highest degree of human wisdom"