Philosophy Quotes

"Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations." "Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal. For the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever." "Everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality. Not God in a politically kingly sense, but God in the sense of being the self, the deep down basic whatever there is. And you're all that... only you're pretending you're not." "We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree." "The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing." "The idea that complex systems with skin in the game are antifragile is crucial to building a sound view of reality" "Missing a train is only painful if you run after it" "Time is the soul of the world" "The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. " "We are what we are because we have been what we have been and what is needed for solving the problems of human life and motives is not moral estimates but more knowledge. " "Blessed is the man who expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed" "When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?" "The truth is, I am rooted, but I flow." "Books are the mirrors of the soul." "You can spend your whole life imagining ghosts, worrying about the pathway to the future, but all there will ever be is what’s happening here" "I am so busy doing nothing that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything." "If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little" "Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity" "All I want to know is where I'm going to die so I'll never go there" "I don’t believe in hope. Hope is a beggar. Hope walks through the fire, and faith leaps over it"