Philosophy Quotes

"The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon." "We're all stories, in the end." "Cogito ergo sum " "It is part of the nature of every definitive love that sooner or later it can reach the beloved only in infinity." "The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the state of emergency in which we live is not the exception but the rule" "Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theater" "There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism" "The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best" "The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist. It is by the ideal that we live." "To love or to have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further." "The more I wonder, the more I love." "Part of what existence means to me is knowing the difference between what I am now and what I was then." "Being happy is not the only happiness." "I wonder if life is ever lived well by anybody, if there is any one thing that might be called a success—except survival." "I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering 'bout the big things and asking 'bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love." "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." "To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring." "In the state of nature, profit is the measure of right" "No arts no letters no society and which is worst of all continual fear and danger of violent death and the life of man solitary poor nasty brutish and short" "Curiosity is the lust of the mind"