I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Baruch SpinozaThe good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
Thomas JeffersonI can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.
Paulo CoelhoReason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C. S. LewisMan is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
Thomas CarlyleWoman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
Franz KafkaThings in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.
Joyce MeyerWill and intellect are one and the same thing.
Baruch SpinozaYesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.
Hunter S. ThompsonI am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinA person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
Desmond TutuWe occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Winston ChurchillYou are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.
Eckhart TolleThe mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.
VoltaireNo man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.
HeraclitusIf a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
Albert SchweitzerWho ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
Francis BaconThe greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
Carl JungReason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
Karl MarxIn order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.
Albert CamusThe absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
Albert CamusI make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.
Christopher HitchensThe desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.
Friedrich NietzscheMan – a being in search of meaning.
PlatoThere is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
EpicurusBasically, 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 CamusWe hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.
Friedrich NietzscheLeave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Theodore RooseveltIs life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
William JamesEvery existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
Jean-Paul SartreIt has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
Bertrand RussellThe future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
C. S. LewisThe doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Benjamin FranklinTo act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.
James BaldwinDost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin FranklinDreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?
Carl JungHow many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.
Henry David ThoreauSmall amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
Francis BaconCherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Napoleon HillThere are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
VoltaireThe chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
H. L. MenckenTo do a great right do a little wrong.
William ShakespeareTemperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
AristotleBeauty is a short-lived tyranny.
George Bernard ShawHegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
George Bernard ShawI read Plato’s ‚Republic.‘ I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it.
Huey NewtonWe think that the world is a solid, vivid place, full of shape and colour and solid objects like this table and this microphone and so on, but we actually create that in our heads out of the bits of information that hit the back of our eyeballs or hit our eardrums or hit our tongues or whatever.
Douglas AdamsMorality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
Friedrich NietzscheEvery particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTo be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.
William JamesNot life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
SocratesI think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.
Christopher HitchensA thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar WildeA new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
Gilbert K. ChestertonDoubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
Hosea BallouA sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
AristotleThe experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.
Franz KafkaBelief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
George EliotIt is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
F. Scott FitzgeraldEvery man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
Henry David Thoreau