Philosophy Quotes

"I used to be so convinced that happiness was the goal, yet all those years I was chasing after it, I was unhappy in the pursuit " "Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be " "We essentially view religion as a very literal pursuit in the West; other countries view it as more poetic and metaphysical." "He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom" "Even the very wise cannot see all ends" "Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right" "A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing, and as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous." "Liberty is the absence of all the impediments to action that are not contained in the nature and in the intrinsic quality of the agent." "I think that love and work are the only things that really happen to us" "The relation between power and knowledge is not one of exteriority" "My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous" "Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret" "Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting" "The critique of modernity has to recognize its ambiguous structure." "From the moment we are born, we begin to die." "The self thus becomes aware of itself only by its opposition to another self " "Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality" "Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem" "The talk of men who are drinking is rich with life and the sense of mortality" "The universe doesn’t care what you believe. You can’t redeem yourself; redeeming is what you do to something you’ve done wrong."