Philosophy Knows

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it's the only one we have.

If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself and whatever science or art or course of action he engages in reacts upon and illuminates the recesses of his own mind. Thus friends seem to be only mirrors to draw out and explain to us ourselves; and that which draws us nearer our fellow man, is, that the deep Heart in one, answers the deep Heart in another, -- that we find we have (a common Nature) -- one life which runs through all individuals, and which is indeed Divine.