Philosophy Quotes

"What is real and what is true are not necessarily the same" "I have always thought that religion has nothing useful to teach us" "Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems" "Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence" "Memory's truth is to desire" "Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart" "When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness" "To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive" "The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect" "Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises" "To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active" "The aims of life are the best defense against death" "The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time" "Only beings who do not believe in the invisible can offer an explanation for everything" "What kind of world is this if a madman tells you must be ashamed of yourselves"