Philosophical Quotes

It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certai...

It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certai...

How dare you? How dare you create a world in which there is such misery that is not our fault? It's ...

What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common....

Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour t...

All life is theatre,' he said. 'We are all actors, you and I, in a play which nobody wrote and which...

The awful thing is that if i can forget they're people, it will be no different at all

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore ...

The games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we cha...

They called themselves the Munrungs. It meant The People, or The True Human Beings.It's what most pe...

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

Man is now able to fly through the air like a bird, he is able to swim under the sea like a fish, he...

Somewhere in this world there exists an exceptional philosopher named Florie Rotondo.The other day I...

I know who I was, I can tell you who I may have been, but I am, now, only in this line of words I wr...

They can send death at once, but life is slower...

Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.

...something important is lost if this man has been forced to deny his own nature.

No one is a good historian of the patent, visible, striking, and public life of peoples, if he is no...

Make thought a whirlwind.

Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.

Night sometimes lends such tragic assistance to catastrophe.

Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?

For there is a general desire to be endlessly remembered and endlessly repeatable.

Death twitches my ear;'Live,' he says... 'I'm coming.

What people had had shed and left--a pair of shoes, a shooting cap, some faded skirts and coats in w...

As summer neared, as the evening lengthened there came to the wakeful, the hopeful, walking the beac...

Here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, or love?

There is a coherence in things, a stability; something... is immune from change and shines out... in...

The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

That vice has often proved an emancipator of the mind, is one of the most humiliating, but, at the s...

Things aren't different. Things are things.

We Are The Sum Total Of Our Choices...

The individual soul touches upon the world soul like a well reaches for the water table. That which ...

Where is that man who has forgotten words that I may have a word with him?

My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is...

The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.

...if the actor gave his performance without knowing that he was in a play, then his tears would be ...

When I look at my life and at the secret color which it has, I feel as if tears were trembling in my...

One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it

As I usually do when I want to get rid of someone whose conversation bores me, I pretended to agree.

It is better to burn than to disappear.

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it...

...in the absence of will power, the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worth...

Shukhov stared at the ceiling and said nothing. He no longer knew whether he wanted to be free or no...

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.