Philosophy Quotes

Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?

Each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, since each of them is irreplaceable and once gone, can never be retrieved.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior

When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in the Soviet Union – like public housing in the United States – look decrepit within a year or two of their construction.

There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

Freedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed.

So, listen, to yourself and to those with whom you are speaking. Your wisdom then consists not of the knowledge you already have, but the continual search for knowledge, which is the highest form of wisdom.

It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.