🏺 Philosophy

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

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

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

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

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

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”

“Ethics precedes ontology.”

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

“Things do not change; we change.”

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

“The face of the other commands me.”

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

“Know thyself.”

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.”

“Existence precedes essence.”

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

“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.”

“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”

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

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

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

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

“One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“No man is an island”