Philosophy Quotes

"The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is" "We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us" "Reality is not always probable or likely." "I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks." "Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment—the moment when a man knows forever more who he is." "I don't know if you know who you are until you lose who you are " "On the road from the City of Skepticism I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity" "The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination" "Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse" "Love and do what you will" "The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them" "There are no little things. Little things are the hinges of the universe" "Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn’t every war fought between men, between brothers?" "The wise man does not grow old, but ripens" "The learned man knows that he is ignorant" "The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens." "The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things." "Neither family, nor children, nor intercourse with others can be rightly ordered until the passions and desires are brought under subjection." "Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil." "There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot."