Philosophy Quotes
It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
Marcus Tullius CiceroMarcus Tullius Cicero Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
Tutu DesmondTutu Desmond There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre All life is problem-solving.
Karl PopperKarl Popper If sex is everything then why are you so sad and lonely?
R. H. SinR. H. Sin Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
Friedrich NietzscheFriedrich Nietzsche Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.
Gilles DeleuzeGilles Deleuze In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
Rene DescartesRene Descartes There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
John KeatsJohn Keats On the question of relating to our fellowman – our neighbor’s spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.
Edith SteinEdith Stein We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.
Frank Lloyd WrightFrank Lloyd Wright Every man should view himself as equally balanced: half good and half evil. Likewise, he should see the entire world as half good and half evil. With a single good deed he will tip the scales for himself, and for the entire world, to the side of good.
MaimonidesMaimonides He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper, but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to his circumstance.
David HumeDavid Hume Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
Bertrand RussellBertrand Russell