Philosophy Quotes

"No one ever said life was fair. Just Eventful." "To know is nothing at all to imagine is everything" "The average man does not know what to do with this life yet wants another one which will last forever" "Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere" "We arrive at truth, not by reason only, but also by the heart" "The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason" "Clarity of mind means clarity of passion too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves" "You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him bananas after death in monkey heaven" "The paradox seems to be, as Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. While those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them" "I used to be so convinced that happiness was the goal, yet all those years I was chasing after it, I was unhappy in the pursuit " "Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be " "We essentially view religion as a very literal pursuit in the West; other countries view it as more poetic and metaphysical." "He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom" "Even the very wise cannot see all ends" "Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right"