🏺 Philosophy

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment”

— Marcus Aurelius

#emotion #perception

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#purpose #endurance #meaning

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#friendship #reciprocity #being

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#music #life #necessity

“I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.”

— Socrates

#intelligence #humility

“That man is wisest who realizes that his wisdom is worthless.”

— Plato

#wisdom #humility

“The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.”

— Martin Heidegger

#thinking #provocation #time

“No man is an island”

— John Donne

#community #interdependence

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

— Oscar Wilde

#truth #complexity

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

— Charles Taylor

#language #identity #expression

“What matters is not whether a universe or a multiverse exists, but that ethical living remains possible.”

— Derek Parfit

#ethics #universe #meaning

“What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#Strength #Resilience

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

— Socrates

#self-reflection #meaning #philosophy

“Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.”

— Zhuangzi

#flow #freedom #acceptance

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”

— Gautama Buddha

#present moment #mindfulness #focus

“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?”

— Chuang Tzu

#dream #reality #identity

“The only real wisdom is knowing you know nothing.”

— Socrates

#wisdom #knowledge

“Man is condemned to be free.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#freedom #condemnation #existence

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls.”

— Khalil Gibran

#suffering #strength #souls

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

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#silence #limits #language

“No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.”

— John Locke

#knowledge #experience #wisdom

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

— Plato

#wonder #curiosity #philosophy

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”

— William James

#action #difference #belief

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#talent #genius #vision

“There is nothing permanent except change.”

— Heraclitus

#change #impermanence #philosophy

“To be great is to be misunderstood.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#greatness #misunderstanding #individuality

“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#language #limits #world

“Understanding is always more than merely recreating someone elses meaning.”

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

#understanding #hermeneutics #creation

“The soul that is within me no man can degrade.”

— Frederick Douglass

#dignity #soul #resilience

“Common sense is not so common.”

— Voltaire

#common-sense #rarity #observation

“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”

— Immanuel Kant

#science #wisdom #organization

“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#patience #fruit #perseverance

“To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control.”

— Martha Nussbaum

#openness #trust #uncertainty

“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”

— Karl Marx

#history #tragedy #repetition

“Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.”

— Epictetus

#freedom #control #stoicism

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.”

— Laozi

#self-knowledge #wisdom #taoism

“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”

— Marcus Aurelius

#revenge #character #virtue

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

— Leibniz

#music #mathematics #pleasure

“Knowledge itself is power.”

— Francis Bacon

#knowledge #power #truth

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

— Avicenna

#causes #knowledge #completeness

“In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.”

— Sun Tzu

#chaos #opportunity #strategy

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”

— Lord Acton

#power #corruption

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

— Hannah Arendt

#evil #indecision #banality

“If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.”

— John Galsworthy

#future #planning

“All sins are attempts to fill voids.”

— Simone Weil

#sin #void #filling

“It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.”

— Diogenes

#wants #contentment #divinity

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

— George Santayana

#history #learning

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

— Unknown

#readiness #growth #learning

“The things that we love tell us what we are.”

— Thomas Aquinas

#love #identity #self-knowledge

“He who dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose.”

— Anne Bronte

#courage #risk

“No great thing is created suddenly.”

— Epictetus

#creation #patience #gradual

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

— Simone Weil

#attention #generosity #purity

“The life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”

— Thomas Hobbes

#life #state-of-nature #society

“Philosophy is universal and without boundaries.”

— Karl Jaspers

#philosophy #universal #boundaries

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

— David Hume

#beauty #mind #perception

“Philosophy is the highest music.”

— Plato

#philosophy #music

“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”

— Baruch Spinoza

#understanding #freedom #learning

“Language is the house of being.”

— Martin Heidegger

#language #being #dwelling

“The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion”

— Thomas Paine

#humanity #kindness

“The question is not who is going to let me; it is who is going to stop me.”

— Ayn Rand

#determination #freedom #individual

“Knowledge is power.”

— Francis Bacon

#knowledge #power #foundation

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

— Al-Ghazali

#knowledge #action #balance

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#health #society #adjustment

“One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.”

— Thomas More

#education #schooling #wisdom

“All real living is meeting.”

— Martin Buber

#meeting #encounter #relationship

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

— Epicurus

#enjoyment #abundance #appreciation

“The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way.”

— John Stuart Mill

#freedom #individuality #pursuit

“To study the Buddha Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.”

— Dogen

#self-study #forgetting #awakening

“I think, therefore I am.”

— Rene Descartes

#existence #thinking #certainty

“There is nothing outside of the text.”

— Jacques Derrida

#text #interpretation #meaning

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

— Unknown

#growth #independence #learning

“Difficulty is what wakes up the genius.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#difficulty #genius

“Peace is not an absence of war; it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence.”

— Baruch Spinoza

#peace #virtue #benevolence

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

#anxiety #freedom #existence

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.”

— Bertrand Russell

#doubt #wisdom #certainty

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

— Lao Tzu

#self-mastery #wisdom #power

“The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.”

— Unknown

#path #heart #inner wisdom

“Calamity is the test of integrity.”

— Samuel Richardson

#adversity #integrity #character

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

— Epictetus

#reaction #events #choice

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

— Nicolo Machiavelli

#appearance #reality #perception

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

— Michel de Montaigne

#self-possession #independence #wisdom

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

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#morality #society #children

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

— Immanuel Kant

#courage #understanding #enlightenment

“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#freedom #responsibility #existentialism

“Compassion is the basis of morality.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#compassion #morality #foundation

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

— Lao Tzu

#journey #beginning #patience

“Justice is what love looks like in public.”

— Cornel West

#justice #love #public

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

— John Milton

#mind #perception #inner world

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.”

— Blaise Pascal

#heart #reason #emotion

“I can only answer the question what am I to do if I can answer the prior question of what story am I part of.”

— Alasdair MacIntyre

#narrative #identity #ethics

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

— Socrates

#happiness #simplicity

“He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.”

— Lao Tzu

#self-knowledge #wisdom #enlightenment

“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”

— Seneca

#difficulties #strength #mind

“Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.”

— Immanuel Kant

#ethics #integrity #universal law

“The absurd does not liberate; it binds.”

— Albert Camus

#absurd #binding #freedom

“We do not learn from experience. We learn from reflecting on experience.”

— John Dewey

#experience #reflection #learning

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

— David Hume

#life #humility

“Act so that the effects of your action are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.”

— Hans Jonas

#ethics #future #responsibility

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

— Hannah Arendt

#revolution #conservative #change

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

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#freedom #chains #society

“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world”

— Archimedes

#motivation #determination

“Doubt is the origin of wisdom.”

— Rene Descartes

#doubt #wisdom #inquiry

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

#speech #thought #freedom

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

— Maimonides

#teaching #independence #wisdom

“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

#identity #womanhood

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”

— Albert Camus

#resilience #inner-strength #discovery

“Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.”

— Boethius

#misery #thinking #perception

“The life of man (in a state of nature) is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”

— Thomas Hobbes

#life #human nature

“One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”

— Albert Camus

#absurdism #happiness #meaning

“We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think.”

— Swami Vivekananda

#thoughts #identity

“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”

— Christopher Columbus

#courage #discovery

“Because you are alive, everything is possible.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#life #possibility #existence

“Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached.”

— Swami Vivekananda

#awakening #persistence #goals

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

— Iris Murdoch

#reality #illusion #truth

“The only thing that is constant is change.”

— Heraclitus

#change #philosophy

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”

— Augustine

#travel #world #knowledge

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”

— Seneca

#imagination #suffering #perception

“He who dares not offend cannot be honest.”

— Thomas Paine

#honesty #fear

“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, that will be enough.”

— Meister Eckhart

#prayer #gratitude #sufficiency

“It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.”

— Eugene Ionesco

#questions #enlightenment

“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”

— Pablo Picasso

#life #purpose

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

— Iris Murdoch

#love #reality #other

“Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight; but there is a beauty for the hearing too.”

— Plotinus

#beauty #senses #perception

“There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.”

— Aristotle

#criticism #action

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”

— Marcus Aurelius

#beauty #stars #wonder

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

— John Stuart Mill

#eccentricity #genius #society

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

— Karl Popper

#ignorance #refusal #knowledge

“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”

— G.K. Chesterton

#ethics #morality

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

— Marcus Aurelius

#thoughts #character #stoicism

“Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived.”

— Gabriel Marcel

#mystery #living #problem

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

— Viktor Frankl

#freedom #choice #response

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#spiritual #human #identity

“The soul is healed by being with children.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#soul #children #healing

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#strength #adversity #resilience

“The soul that is without a fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere is to be nowhere.”

— Michel de Montaigne

#purpose #focus #direction

“The world is not what I think, but what I live through.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

#world #lived-experience #perception

“Hell is other people.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#others #hell #relationships

“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.”

— Charles Darwin

#adaptability #survival

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

— Karl Marx

#change #interpretation #action

“You are the universe experiencing itself.”

— Alan Watts

#universe #self #experience

“Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.”

— Isaiah Berlin

#liberty #power #protection

“There are no facts, only interpretations.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#facts #interpretation #perspective

“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”

— Plato

#Power #Integrity

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

— Peter Singer

#ethics #prevention #duty

“The opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by all is what we mean by the truth.”

— Charles Sanders Peirce

#truth #agreement #inquiry

“The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”

— Bertrand de Jouvenel

#wonder #perception #growth

“Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.”

— Immanuel Kant

#happiness #imagination #reason

“We are what our thoughts have made us.”

— Swami Vivekananda

#Thoughts #Self

“To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.”

— Montesquieu

#greatness #humility #people

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#chaos #creativity #transformation

“The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap.”

— Zhuangzi

#detachment #wisdom #taoism

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

— William James

#wisdom #overlooking #discernment

“To do two things at once is to do neither.”

— Publilius Syrus

#Focus #Productivity

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

— Gilles Deleuze

#concepts #creation #destruction

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

— Heraclitus

#change #impermanence #identity

“Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hatred, and hatred leads to conflict.”

— Ibn Rushd

#ignorance #fear #hatred

“Character is destiny.”

— Heraclitus

#character #destiny #fate

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

— Sydney J. Harris

#Relaxation #Time

“Emptiness wrongly grasped is like picking up a poisonous snake by the wrong end.”

— Nagarjuna

#emptiness #danger #understanding

“Life is like a camera. Just focus on what’s important and capture the good times, develop from the negatives and if things don’t work out, just take another shot.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

#Life #Perseverance

“Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#love #morality

“Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forwards.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

#life #understanding #time

“We live in an age of exhaustion and fatigue because we are always pushing ourselves.”

— Byung-Chul Han

#exhaustion #fatigue #achievement

“The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#miracle #earth #walking

“The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself as accepted in spite of being unacceptable.”

— Paul Tillich

#courage #acceptance #self

“Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.”

— Pythagoras

#brevity #communication #wisdom

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

— William James

#doubt #action #pragmatism

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

— Socrates

#authenticity #speech

“Where there is power, there is resistance.”

— Michel Foucault

#power #resistance #dynamics

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

— bell hooks

#love #domination #choice

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

— Rumi

#silence #god #language

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

— Socrates

#wisdom #humility #knowledge

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

— Aristotle

#habits #excellence #practice

“Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.”

— Pythagoras

#brevity #clarity #communication

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.”

— Plato

#wisdom #speech #silence

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

— Epicurus

#living #death #art

“Existence precedes essence.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#existence #essence #being

“Ethics precedes ontology.”

— Emmanuel Levinas

#ethics #ontology #priority

“I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”

— Michael Jordan

#Success #Failure

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

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#power #fear #love

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

— Sarah Louise Delany

#life #sweet

“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

#lightness #time #grace

“The three most harmful addictions are narcotics, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#addiction #comfort #independence

“Prejudices are what fools use for reason.”

— Voltaire

#prejudice #reason

“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”

— Robert Byrne

#purpose #life

“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#life #purpose

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

— Yuval Noah Harari

#death #worry #priorities

“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”

— Oscar Wilde

#genius #confidence

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

— Lao Tzu

#leadership #humility #invisible

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

— Charles Darwin

#survival #adaptability

“Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; happiness dwells in the soul.”

— Democritus

#happiness #soul #materialism

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

— Will Durant

#habits #excellence #discipline

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

— Maimonides

#teaching #empowerment #wisdom

“Architecture is frozen music.”

— Schelling

#architecture #music #art

“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”

— Bible, Luke 6:31

#ethics #fairness

“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading”

— Lao Tzu

#change #direction

“Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them.”

— Epictetus

#perspective #stoicism #mindset

“Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.”

— Zhuangzi

#happiness #striving #paradox

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

— Diogenes

#listening #speaking #wisdom

“I know that I know nothing.”

— Socrates

#wisdom #humility #knowledge

“To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.”

— Confucius

#wisdom #humility #self-awareness

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

— Plato

#examination #life #worth

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

— Marcus Aurelius

#mind #power #strength

“Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”

— Socrates

#ideas #discussion #mind

“The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.”

— Milarepa

#meditation #practice #urgency

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.”

— Epicurus

#contentment #desire #gratitude

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

— Ibn Rushd

#ignorance #fear #hate

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

— Socrates

#wisdom #knowledge

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

— Democritus

#atoms #materialism #opinion

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

#understanding #time #paradox

“If you want to be happy, be.”

— Leo Tolstoy

#happiness #choice

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

— Blaise Pascal

#solitude #stillness #problems

“Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought.”

— John Rawls

#justice #virtue #institutions

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

— Zeno of Citium

#listening #speech #balance

“The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.”

— Thales

#self-knowledge #difficulty #wisdom

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

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#love #energy #future

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

— Friedrich Schiller

#willpower #greatness

“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.”

— Alfred North Whitehead

#progress #order #change

“The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.”

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#history #learning #irony

“The face of the other commands me.”

— Emmanuel Levinas

#other #ethics #face

“Leisure is the mother of philosophy.”

— Thomas Hobbes

#leisure #philosophy #thinking

“The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#observation #evaluation #intelligence

“To understand everything is to forgive everything.”

— Baruch Spinoza

#understanding #forgiveness #compassion

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

— Henry David Thoreau

#desperation #conformity #awareness

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”

— Voltaire

#questions #judgment #inquiry

“He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.”

— Confucius

#thinking #learning #balance

“Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.”

— Confucius

#learning #thinking #balance

“The task of the public sphere is to subject the powerful to critique.”

— Jurgen Habermas

#public #critique #power

“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.”

— Adam Smith

#economy #self-interest

“An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight.”

— Albert Schweitzer

#optimism #pessimism #perspective

“The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion, and men who have religion and no wit.”

— Avicenna

#wit #religion #division

“Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.”

— Hannah Arendt

#forgiveness #action #freedom

“Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.”

— Richard Rorty

#truth #society #pragmatism

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

— Alan Watts

#change #adaptation

“Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.”

— William of Ockham

#simplicity #necessity #logic

“Knowledge without action is vanity, and action without knowledge is insanity.”

— Al-Ghazali

#knowledge #action #balance

“The more you know, the more you realize you do not know.”

— Aristotle

#knowledge #humility #learning

“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”

— Socrates

#Wisdom #Knowledge

“Whatever is, is.”

— Parmenides

#being #existence #identity

“To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world.”

— Martha Nussbaum

#openness #goodness #world

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