Philosophy Quotes

"To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring." "In the state of nature, profit is the measure of right" "No arts no letters no society and which is worst of all continual fear and danger of violent death and the life of man solitary poor nasty brutish and short" "Curiosity is the lust of the mind" "A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him" "The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die" "Boredom is the root of all evil the despairing refusal to be oneself" "There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it" "A man without words is a man without thought" "Everything one invents is true you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry" "Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions" "Of all lies art is the least untrue" "Success is a consequence and must not be a goal" "The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed" "If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on"