Philosophy Quotes

"To hope is to risk despair" "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." "To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do." "The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible." "But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if evil didn't exist?" "As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters" "Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls" "The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware" "One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things" "To make living itself an art, that is the goal" "Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place" "The crowd is untruth" "The greatest hazard of all, losing oneself, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all" "It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey" "It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path"