Philosophy Quotes

"We are an impossibility in an impossible universe." "No person ever strayed away from sensible thinking who took time to think." "There are no rights. There are only privileges." "Eternity is in love with the productions of time" "Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow" "The realm of silence and the realm of words are the farthest apart of anything in creation." "There is no love of life without despair of life" "To abandon oneself to principles is really to die" "One day we were born, one day we shall all die, the same day, the same second." "If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?" "The fundamental problem with the human species is an excess." "Sometimes the most complicated questions have the simplest answers" "The only thing certain is nothing is certain." "The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge." "It is better to know how to learn than to know" "Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living" "To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues." "No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience." "The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are principally these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which way it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence. This is called abstraction and thus all its general ideas are made." "We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided"