Philosophy Quotes

"The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it." "Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them." "A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams." "What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?" "It is not that what is past casts its light on what is present or what is present its light on what is past rather image is that wherein what has been comes together in a flash with the now to form a constellation" "The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil." "There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It's up to you to decide what to do with them." "It is not well to make great changes by severe means unless the end really justifies the measure" "Everything is worthwhile if the soul is not small." "We never love anyone. We love only our idea of what someone is like. We love an idea of our own; in short, it is ourselves that we love." "In this short Life that only lasts an hour how much how little is within our power" "Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent" "Luck doesn't change, only our perspective of it does." "The more clear an idea is, the more surely it is based on confusion." "I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything." "Be a philosopher but amid all your philosophy be still a man" "The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst" "Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men the good and the bad But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue" "To love life is to love God" "The end is in the beginning and yet you go on"