Philosophy Quotes

"He that loves no woman lives an incomplete life" "Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world." "Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life." "To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think." "Time is the moving image of eternity" "The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture" "The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself" "Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance" "Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself" "Virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private" "Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue" "Only the dead have seen the end of war " "I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars." "Nothing can happen more beautiful than death." "The future is no more uncertain than the present." "How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are" "We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men." "But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought." "Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness" "An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot"