Philosophy Quotes

"It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path" "The sea has neither meaning nor pity." "Man will become better when you show him what he is like." "It is easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook." "One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake." "The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts" "The more refined one is, the more unhappy" "Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable" "Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced" "The more I learn about the universe, the more I learn about how much I don't know" "Man is a social animal" "Happiness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself" "He who lives according to the guidance of reason strives, as far as he can, to repay hatred with love and nobleness" "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise" "It is better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion however satisfying and reassuring" "Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last." "The love of money is not the root of all evil. The lack of money is the root of all evil." "The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire." "Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist" "Some people see things that are and ask, why. Some people dream of things that never were and ask, why not. Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that"