Philosophy Quotes

“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.”

“Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.”

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”

“Be happy about your growth, in which of course you can’t take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind.”

“Let us suffer if we must, but let us suffer on the heights.”

“In the mountains of truth you will never climb in vain: either you will get up higher today or you will exercise your strength so as to be able to get up higher tomorrow.”

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”

“Nobody can save you but yourself—and you’re worth saving. It’s a war not easily won, but if anything is worth winning—this is it.”

“Painful is the stress when one cannot reproduce or convey vividly to others, however hard he tries, what he's experienced so intensely.”

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”

“I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. It might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.”

“Thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!”

“Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.”

“When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil.”

“We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope.”

“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love, is well done.”

“I don't care if it's a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse.”