I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.
Stephen HawkingIt’s not tyranny we desire; it’s a just, limited, federal government.
Alexander HamiltonTo be is to do.
Immanuel KantGod is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?
Friedrich NietzscheWhich death is preferably to every other? ‚The unexpected‘.
Julius CaesarThere is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
William JamesJudgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
Friedrich NietzscheBeing is the great explainer.
Henry David ThoreauReligion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.
Mahatma GandhiA democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
Aldous HuxleyBasically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that’s what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.
Albert CamusAll of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
Tennessee WilliamsThe foolish man conceives the idea of ‚self.‘ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‚self;‘ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.
BuddhaWhat can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
Immanuel KantWe do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
PlatoNothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
Baruch SpinozaAre creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.
Mahatma GandhiBeauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.
Oscar WildeEternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.
Woody AllenOut of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
Immanuel KantPhilosophy is common sense with big words.
James MadisonIt is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
Niccolo MachiavelliExaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
Khalil GibranGod Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
Francis BaconThe light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
Henry David ThoreauBeauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.
John RuskinThe only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.
Immanuel KantSometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.
Jim MattisA prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
Francis BaconThose who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHappiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
George WashingtonHonor thy error as a hidden intention.
Brian EnoYou may be able to read Bernard Shaw’s plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?
Jiddu KrishnamurtiMy goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
Stephen HawkingNothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
Baruch SpinozaWhen someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it.
Jerry SeinfeldThe question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher’s or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself – Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiKindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
William ShakespeareExistence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
Friedrich NietzscheIt is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.
George WashingtonI argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
Emily DickinsonThe beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
Virginia WoolfThe fool wonders, the wise man asks.
Benjamin DisraeliPerhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.
Oscar WildeGood men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.
Leonardo da VinciWe do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
Mahatma GandhiAll human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.
Blaise PascalIt seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
George EliotIt is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
VoltaireWhy was I born with such contemporaries?
Oscar WildeAny fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
Henry David ThoreauLet us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
Oscar WildeWhen you’re 25 or 30, you know, you can’t wear lime-green eye shadow anymore.
Taylor SwiftMost sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.
Stephen HawkingI never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
Thomas JeffersonThe brain is wider than the sky.
Emily DickinsonWhoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Albert EinsteinThe first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
VoltaireIn a certain sense the Good is comfortless.
Franz KafkaPhilosophy is the highest music.
Plato