Philosophical Quotes

Very..." She left the word hanging. Very unfinished, thought Isabel. The woman finished her sentence...

Of course, the abolition of Hell meant that such thoughts were now the merest fantasy. Isobel was ag...

The problem, of course, was that people did not seem to understand the difference between right and ...

Introspection does not need to be a still life. It can be an active alchemy.

Time is a tease

Those who complimented me were those who understood me the least.

Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.

The child-like, gum-chewing naïveté , the glamour rooted in despair, the self admiring carelessness,...

The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle tha...

For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to...

It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, ...

The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

Truly, the old maid is a most useful person, one of the reserve forces of the community. They talk o...

Rubashov had always believed that he knew himself rather well. Being without moral prejudices, he ha...

How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the h...

there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to ta...

If I found a job, a project, an idea or a person I wanted-I'd have to depend on the whole world. Eve...

Your moral code begins by damning man as evil, then demands that he practice a good which it defines...

Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man’s valu...

That's your cruelty, that's what's mean and selfish about you. If you loved your brother, you'd give...

[V]alue your dreams but . . . be wary of them also, . . . look for integrity in unusual places.

Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cann...

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life w...

No single man makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing. Wars and ...

When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the patte...

It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the unive...

Jace turned to look over his shoulder, the wind whipping his hair into tangles. "What are you thinki...

What are you thinking?""Just how different everything down there is now, you know, now that I can se...

When the Devil goeth about like a roaring lion, he goeth about in a shape by which few but savages a...

It was a train full of strangers, and they were all the same.

The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us.

For other people, I can't speak - but, personally, I haven't gotten wise on anything. Certainly, I'v...

Maybe God left it up to people to develop the ability to bring back Christ into their lives. Maybe G...

The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're a...

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

He who is concerned only with the purity of his own life ruins the great human relations.

Lead the people with administrative injunctions and put them in their place with penal law, and they...

Pick a man, any man. That man there. See him. That man hatless. You know his opinion of the world. Y...

This other man he could never see in his entirety but he seemed an artisan and a worker in metal. Th...

Where men can't live gods fare no better.

We’re beings towards death, we’re featherless two-legged linguistically conscious creatures born bet...

Sometimes I don't feel as if I'm a person at all. I'm just a collection of other people's ideas.

But if I decide to decide there’s a different, less selfish, less lonely point to my life, won’t the...

The world's a headmaster who works on your faults. I don't mean in a mystical or Jesus way. More how...

This isn’t lust. Lust wants, does the obvious, and pads back into the forest. Love is greedier. Love...

Brilliant people never think of the lives they smash, being brilliant.

Would you ask a man who bags groceries if he fears death not because it is death but because there a...

The best things in life make you sweaty.

Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore...

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas...

What kind of God do you believe in? my answer is easy: I believe in a magnificent God

Hunger is a wayOf standing outside windowsThe entering takes away.

Death is nothing to us, because a body that has been dispersed into elements experiences no sensatio...

We all see the world through the prism of our identity.

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fort...

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?

That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune'...

Wisdom too often never comes, so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

Hayt felt suddenly that he existed in a dream controlled by some other mind, and that he might momen...

I never thought it would be easy to serve God," she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard...

Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.

philosophy is not suited for the masses, what they need is holiness.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers...

Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend i...

Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of...

Just to say 'I believe' or 'I do not doubt' does not mean that you understand and see. To force ones...

One needs to properly possess only a couple of great thoughts--they shed light on many stretches who...

Perhaps one has to have placed life in the center of one’s worldview and valued it as much as I have...

By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in g...

If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to hims...

And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right. The obvious, the silly, and the true ...

When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys.

Terrible times breed terrible things, my lord.

The grave casts long shadows, Iron Lord," Mirri said. "Long and dark, and in the end no light can ho...

Sometimes, the best thing you can do is nothing. Catelyn

The fact is, that what de Sade was trying to bring to the surface of the conscious mind was precisel...

Ο θάνατος είναι πάντα από μόνος του μια απόδειξη ειλικρίνειας.

Deep down, all the while, she was waiting for something to happen. Like a sailor in distress, she ke...

It was––how shall I put it?––a painfully solitary building. Let me explain. Say we have a concept. I...

Es decir..., lo que yo creo es que el hombre piensa en el significado de la vida porque sabe con cer...

To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exlcude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.

Over and over again I have said that there is no way out of the present impasse. If we were wide awa...

For, thought Ahab, while even the highest earthly felicities ever have a certain unsignifying pettin...

Nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to follow the path that leads to himself.

If even a dog's tooth is truly worshipped it glows with light. The venerated object is endowed with ...

All roads lead to Trantor, and that is where all stars end.

Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.

Ah, but in time the heat of noontide passes, and to it there succeed nightfall and dusk, with a retu...

I am doubtful myself about the undertaking. Part of the attraction of the L.R. is, I think, due to t...

But the only measure that he knows is desire desire for power and so he judges all hearts. Into his ...

It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may...

To exemplify, -a beautiful glossy nut, which, blessed with original strength, has outlived all the s...

My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think...and I can't stop myself from th...

If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.

Happy is the man who is nothing.

Things are not always as bad as they seem. Sometimes, the darkness only makes it easier to see the l...

He believed in his own decency with all his heart. So it was with every true monster, Vic supposed.

He believed in his own decency with all his heart. So it was with every true monster, Vic supposed.