Philosophy Quotes

"A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person." "We often think too much about the future, and what we are going to achieve, instead of living in the moment." "Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny" "It is not wisdom but authority that makes a law" "For it can never be that war shall preserve life and peace destroy it" "It is sometimes said that the whole world is a stage, but the stages are different." "Only the hand that erases can write the true thing" "Fiction is a lie that tells us true things." "The universe is a grand book, full of notes in all margins." "He who knows the pleaser to be false, yet still takes pleasure, is more complete as a human." "Our civilization depends critically on the idea of at least one positive truth" "Human beings are an extraordinary set of contradictions, at all times both horrible and wonderful." "Where philosophy is a matter of words and of ideas, poetry is a matter of sounds and of experiences" "Who wants to live forever?" "All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning."