Philosophy Quotes
All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
PlutarchPlutarch I know a way to stay friends forever, there’s really nothing to it, I tell you what to do, and you do it.
Shel SilversteinShel Silverstein Having thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil.
Dietrich BonhoefferDietrich Bonhoeffer The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
Elie WieselElie Wiesel Be brutal with the past, especially your own, and have no respect for the philosophies that are foisted on you from outside.
Robert GreeneRobert Greene The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
Ray BradburyRay Bradbury How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
Bertrand RussellBertrand Russell Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
Thomas MertonThomas Merton Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
Stephen CoveyStephen Covey Silence will remove the veil of ignorance.
Frode GaslandFrode Gasland The soul is uninhabited world that only comes to life when god lays his head against us.
Thomas AquinasThomas Aquinas If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
Jules VerneJules Verne Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
Henry KissingerHenry Kissinger Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
Vikram SethVikram Seth