Philosophy Quotes

This is the most profound question in life: ‘What is the nature of my existence?’

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.

Meditation raises the question: Who are we really?

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.

If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.

It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.

The things people try to destroy in you, are a reflection of the things they lack within themselves.