Philosophy Quotes

"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." "The simplest explanation is always the most likely." "Silence is deep as Eternity; Speech is shallow as Time" "A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge" "Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us" "It's not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true." "As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss." "The birds do not sing because they have answers, they sing because they have songs." "Men are cruel, but Man is kind." "Truth is the highest thing that man may keep" "There is an end to everything, to good things as well" "What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing" "The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men" "The past is always tense the future perfect" "Love is at once an affirmation and a transcendence of who you are." "In desire, we experience a paradox: we seek the other in order to find ourselves." "Anyone who tries to make love disappear from life without considering its causes is like someone who executes a judge without bothering first to find out what crime he was tried for." "It is by no means an irrational fancy that in a future existence we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream" "Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence" "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend"