Philosophy Quotes

"This is a comprehensive collection of the well-known quotes attributed to Socrates in English." "I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned" "What I cannot create, I do not understand" "Belief creates the actual fact" "The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind." "He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man" "Language is the dress of thought" "The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution" "A well-spent day brings happy sleep; and a life well used brings happy death." "Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death." "The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects." "Art is never finished, only abandoned." "You only live once, that's the motto, YOLO" "What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning." "Understanding means throwing away your knowledge." "I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on" "The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless." "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."