Philosophy Quotes

Meditation is essentially training our attention so that we can be more aware— not only of our own inner workings but also of what’s happening around us in the here & now.

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden.

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.

It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there that we must do our work.

Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.

I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has not been held by one of the philosophers.