Philosophy Quotes

"A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him" "The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die" "Boredom is the root of all evil the despairing refusal to be oneself" "There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it" "A man without words is a man without thought" "Everything one invents is true you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry" "Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions" "Of all lies art is the least untrue" "Success is a consequence and must not be a goal" "The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed" "If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on" "There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view " "Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity " "Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks " "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy" "The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference" "The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won’t find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice" "We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here" "I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will" "I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man"