Philosophy Quotes

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

The only thing that fills the void is pulling things out of it.

There is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle.

Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.

If there are ripples on the surface of a lake, we cannot see the depth. Similarly unless the mind is restful, we cannot experience the harmony and union within us.

Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology.

One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.

What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.

Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.

It was only toward the middle of the twentieth century that the inhabitants of many European countries came, in general unpleasantly, to the realization that their fate could be influenced directly by intricate and abstruse books of philosophy.