Philosophy Quotes

"Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present" "Cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be" "A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin" "The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated" "Wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that has little, and wants less, is richer than he that has much, and wants more" "All human knowledge thus begins with intuitions, proceeds thence to concepts, and ends with ideas." "Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality." "Science is organized knowledge, wisdom is organized life." "The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil." "The beautiful is that which pleases universally without a concept." "A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence." "O for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts." "Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer." "To all, to men and to animals, to plants and to things, to everything that lives, to everything that will die, to everything that breathes" "The more you know, the less you believe."