Philosophy Quotes

Money often costs too much.

The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

October 19. The inner world can only be experienced, not described.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

I think all the great religions of the world are both untrue and harmful. It is evident as a matter of logic that, since they disagree, not more than one of them can be true.

I construct my memories with my present. I am lost, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past: I cannot escape.

Cowards die many times before their deaths.

The most valuable moments and experiences that life has to offer are found only along its most treacherous paths.

What more or better can be said of any condition of human affairs, than that it brings human beings themselves nearer to the best thing they can be? Or what worse can be said of any obstruction to good, than that it prevents this?

Self-control is something for which I do not strive. Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

Dare to think for yourself.

The human heart refuses To believe in a universe without a purpose.

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.

In that daily effort in which intelligence and passion mingle and delight each other, the absurd man discovers a discipline that will make up the greatest of his strengths.

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.