Philosophy Quotes
Man’s first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he reaches the age of reason, he becomes the only judge of the best means to preserve himself; he becomes his own master.
Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.
Tutu DesmondTutu Desmond It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
VoltaireVoltaire To make a mistake is only human; to persist in a mistake is idiotic.
Marcus Tullius CiceroMarcus Tullius Cicero We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
Ray BradburyRay Bradbury I wanna open every know of who “I should be” so I can elongate the rope, fly up higher and discover who I “could” be.
Kriti SanonKriti Sanon Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
Martin HeideggerMartin Heidegger Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.
Ayn RandAyn Rand When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes Every experience, good or bad, you have to learn from.
Patrick Mahomes IIPatrick Mahomes II I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealist who digests philosophy more efficiently than food.
Alfred NobelAlfred Nobel We are all just humans trying to survive in this crazy world, in the spaces between birth and death.
Melody LeeMelody Lee To philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
David HumeDavid Hume Recovery isn’t an end-game. It’s an every day, by the grace of God, I choose me, I choose them, I’ve come this far, I will not go back, war for my soul that I will not lose.
JN FenwickJN Fenwick They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
Simone de BeauvoirSimone de Beauvoir