Philosophy Quotes

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

I’m supposed to figure out if the glass is half full or half empty, I told her. Without a moment’s hesitation, in a split second, my grandmother shrugged and said: It depends on if you’re drinking or pouring.

Nothing in the visual field allows you to infer that it is seen by an eye.

Just as a prism refracts light differently when you change its angle, each experience of love illuminates love in new ways, drawing from an infinite palette of patterns and hues.

Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.

The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.

Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world.

Before we can realize who we really are, we must become conscious of the fact that the person we think we are, here and now, is at best an impostor and a stranger.

Love is sight, sight is love. Stay where you’re seen, it’s where you’re loved.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.