Philosophy Quotes

"All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow." "We can know only one thing: that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom." "What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness." "A truly wise man is always joyful." "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit" "I would love to make beauty and strangeness synonymous" "The circle of the return to the origin has never closed, and the possibility of parricide has always remained open" "To philosophize is to learn to die" "If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?" "Science gives us knowledge but only philosophy can give us wisdom" "You are not born a woman, but become one" "In order to be an object of desire, it is necessary to get some distance from oneself" "To exist is to dare to throw oneself into the world" "I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it. I say, Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I’ll be ready." "We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing." "There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues." "The final end of every human undertaking, whether in science, art, or religion, is the human realization of the identity between the knower and the known, the seer and the seen, the experiencer and the experienced." "Maybe this planet is some other planet’s hell." "Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs." "Time! The present! In these, I am almost inclined to believe. I am a skeptical mystic."