Philosophy Quotes

"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything" "Discipline must come through liberty. Here is a great principle which is difficult for followers of man-made disciplines to understand." "It’s not true that life is one damn thing after another; it’s one damn thing over and over" "I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep my expectations" "Perfect ain't perfect if you don't include the mistakes" "Too much freedom can lead to the soul's decay" "A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world." "Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it." "Each time we make a decision we are turning the central part of ourselves into something a little different than it was before" "When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. " "Sooner or later in life, everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable" "The impatient idealist says: Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth. But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace" "Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds" "The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to everything else, namely not to follow it but to amend it." "The principle itself of liberty and the Social Contract is a rights-logic applicable to all human beings without discrimination." "Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." "One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds" "Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe I dispute that I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe" "To live doesn't mean you're alive" "The source of all the material comes from nothingness, silence, and emptiness."