🏺 Philosophy

“The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius and vigor it contained.”

“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”

“Cogito, ergo sum”

“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.”

“The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing.”

“Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.”

“A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.”

“Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence.”

“Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own understanding.”

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”

“To understand everything is to forgive everything.”

“You are the universe experiencing itself.”

“The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.”

“Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.”

“I know that I know nothing.”

“The day will come when, after harnessing the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness the energies of love.”

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

“Compassion is the basis of morality.”

“The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.”

“Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.”

“Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance.”

“Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.”

“I dreamed I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither. Then I awoke. Now I wonder: am I a man who dreamed of being a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming of being a man?”

“True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge but the refusal to acquire it.”

“Difficulty is what wakes up the genius.”

“We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.”

“If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening without sacrificing anything of comparable importance, we ought to do it.”

“Whenever you are in doubt, it is best to act.”

“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”

“The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the foolish are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

“It is not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”

“We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.”

“Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.”

“Mankind is made great or little by its own will.”

“The symbol gives rise to thought.”

“Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder.”

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

“We become full human agents capable of understanding ourselves through rich languages of expression.”

“The great man is he who does not lose his childs heart.”

“The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to tolerate insecurity.”

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”

“The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination.”