Philosophy Quotes

"What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now." "Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely." "A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again. But if he is peaceful, loving, and fearless, then he is in truth called wise." "Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation." "Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame." "Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else." "Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things." "I do not dispute with the world; rather it is the world that disputes with me." "Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame." "Everything in moderation, including moderation." "The instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves." "Nothing is forever except change." "Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever’s not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet." "The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most." "Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man." "My way of joking is to tell the truth. That’s the funniest joke in the world." "If quick, I survive. If not quick, I am lost. This is death." "Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities." "He does not believe that does not live according to his belief." "Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality."