Philosophy Quotes

"Wonder is the desire for knowledge" "Nothing is funnier than unhappiness." "The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops." "Good conduct arises out of good doctrine" "Beauty is worse than wine; it intoxicates both the holder and beholder" "The work of memory collapses time" "Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere." "The more I see the less I know for sure" "I think you still have to do things even if they don’t have any point." "Writing is itself but the representation of speech" "Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth." "Ending is better than mending." "A belief in hell is the only one, among numerous metaphysical beliefs, which has always seemed to me to be entirely certain." "Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead." "We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond" "The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost" "The life given us by nature is short but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal" "There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living" "This world is but a canvas to our imagination" "I resist, therefore I exist"