Philosophy Quotes

The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.

Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.

Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as cunning is a crime, so is duplicity a fault, and if men dread knaves, they also despise fools.

Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.

When we say something about something, we make it lie there before us, which means at the same time to make it appear.

People have to have a desire within themselves to know who they are and the reason why they are in this body.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.

The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.