1363 quotes
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
Albert SchweitzerThere is nothing good or evil save in the will.
EpictetusThe empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
PlatoAll time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.
Kurt VonnegutThe end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
SocratesThe end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiLife is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Woody AllenThere is no birth of consciousness without pain.
Carl JungThe truth is lived, not taught.
Hermann HesseGratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Marcus Tullius CiceroAll the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?
Immanuel KantThe rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
Mark TwainI believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.
Neil ArmstrongCouples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.
HeraclitusThe impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
Douglas AdamsMy thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.
Jean-Paul SartreRisk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.
Warren BuffettTruth is a pathless land.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiMan was made at the end of the week’s work, when God was tired.
Mark TwainTruth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.
Albert SchweitzerYou and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
Alan WattsThe state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
AristotleTo live is to think.
Marcus Tullius CiceroTo be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
Golda MeirIn questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Galileo GalileiJudging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
Albert CamusProbable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
AristotleYou shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
Aldous HuxleyWhoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Albert EinsteinHonor 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 KrishnamurtiIt is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.
George WashingtonThe first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
VoltaireNothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
Immanuel KantIt is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‚try to be a little kinder.‘
Aldous HuxleyThings are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
Alan WattsThose who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
VoltaireThe existentialist says at once that man is anguish.
Jean-Paul SartreA trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.
Blaise PascalThere are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
PlatoReal living is living for others.
Bruce LeeI want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
Albert EinsteinThere will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
PlatoThe only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
Oscar WildeMen create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
AristotleTo the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
VoltaireThe art is long, life is short.
HippocratesFacts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous HuxleyInformation is not knowledge.
Albert EinsteinHow many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.
Henry David ThoreauWisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
PlatoScience without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert EinsteinFaith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
VoltaireFor if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
Albert CamusSo act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Immanuel KantIt is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
VoltaireMaybe this world is another planet’s hell.
Aldous HuxleyIt seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.
John SteinbeckHere we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
Kurt VonnegutFor one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
Aristotle