🏺 Philosophy

“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.”

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our freedom.”

“Ethics precedes ontology.”

“The only way to be truly free is to accept your limitations.”

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”

“Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.”

“It is much safer to be feared than loved, if one cannot be both.”

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent; it is the one most adaptable to change.”

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

“When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. When the student is truly ready, the teacher will disappear.”

“A leader is best when people barely know he exists.”

“The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster”

“The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.”

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”

“Know thyself.”

“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”

“To be is to be perceived.”

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”

“Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.”

“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason or it can be thrown through the window.”

“Things do not change; we change.”

“One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”

“Existence precedes essence.”

“Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.”

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”

“Change your life today. Do not gamble on the future, act now without delay.”

“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.”

“Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”

“The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.”

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”

“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.”

“We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.”

“No man is an island”

“All of humanitys problems stem from mans inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”

“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.”

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”

“Life is short, and it's up to you to make it sweet.”

“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”

“I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.”

“Silence is the language of God; all else is poor translation.”

“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

“The real question of life after death is not whether it exists, but whether it is worth worrying about.”

“I would rather die having spoken after my manner, than speak in your manner and live.”

“The face of the other commands me.”

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”