Philosophy Quotes

To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery.

The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.

For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.

To be interesting, one has to provoke.

The simple truth is that truth is hard to come by, and that once found may easily be lost again.

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.

Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.

If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.

The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.