True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
When the pain is great enough, we will let anyone be doctor.
I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I wanted. What do you think is alive in me? Why do you think I'm alive? Because I have a stomach and eat and digest the food? Because I breathe and work and produce more food to digest? Or because I know what I want, and that something which knows how to want—isn't that life itself? And who—in this damned universe—who can tell me why I should live for anything but for that which I want?
Nothing has changed the nature of man so much as the loss of silence.
All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.
How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation.
'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
I know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
The Revolution won't happen with guns, rather it will happen incrementally, year by year, generation by generation. We will gradually infiltrate their educational institutions and their political offices, transforming them slowly into Marxist entities as we move towards universal egalitarianism.
To become learned, each day add something. To become enlightened, each day drop something
What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world which we shall call true philosophy.
When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
Philosophy begins in wonder.
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
One of two things is usually lacking in the so-called Philosophy of Art: either philosophy or art.
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
Philosophy is reason with the eyes of the soul.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
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