Philosophy Quotes

"The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived." "A wise man never loses anything if he has himself." "The soul that has no established aim loses itself." "To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one let us deprive life of the fear of death." "The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness." "Between the idea and the reality between the motion and the act falls the Shadow" "In my beginning is my end" "Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding" "The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire" "I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge? " "Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit" "The beauty of the cosmos is that it lies in the magnificent potentials of life to understand it" "For good people to do evil things, it takes religion" "Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion" "Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law" "The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft" "Reality does not conform to the ideal but confirms it" "All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry" "I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends will call it" "Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others"