Philosophy Quotes

The small wisdom is like water in a glass, clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

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.

There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.

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.

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper, but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to his circumstance.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.

The universe is a complete unique entity. Everything and everyone is bound together with some invisible strings. Do not break anyone’s heart; do not look down on weaker than you. One’s sorrow at the other side of the world can make the entire world suffer; one’s happiness can make the entire world smile.