Philosophy Quotes

Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.

To shine your brightest light is to be who you truly are.

I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

There is no good in anything until it is finished.

The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.