Philosopher Quotes
The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4.
In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money.
Although they probably know that some children were used and some children are used as miners, most adults are ignorant of the chocolate industry’s use of minors.
There is nothing morally wrong with buying stolen goods, unless you know that they were stolen.
Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of us who will never be or have not yet been pushed or pulled into old age.
As an unavoidable result of the inevitable loss of some physical and/or some mental abilities, many a man who has been alive for many years has become a boy again.
Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.
Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.
Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.
A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.
Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.
In some cases, you can tell how somebody is being treated by their own boss from the way they are treating someone to whom they are a boss.
They say the distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success, I believe you can say the same thing about the distance between good and evil.
A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true.
Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.
Most of us cling to life as if our existence were a result of our deed or choice.
We are way less likely to love someone just because they love us than we are to hate someone just because they hate us.
Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that.
We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.
Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.
Philosophy is so interesting and intriguing that it is almost boring not to be a philosopher.
To be a philosopher you do not need to be a professor but you do have to love and understand nature.
If Socrates was alive today he would say : I know that I know everything. That's what contemporary philosophers do.
Destiny is manifested only through action.
I travel to the ancient world by reading ancient books.
Being a stoic does not mean being a robot. Being a stoic means remaining calm both at the height of pleasure and the depths of misery.
I am a monk at heart - a scientist at brain - a philosopher at conscience.
You are not supposed to go out and find love. Love will find you when you are ready.
You do not find love. It finds you.
Truth is straight like a line. Virtue is firm like a wall. Wisdom is tall like a mountain. Love is wide like an ocean.
Knowledge offers you strength. Wisdom promises you influence. Understanding assures you wealth. Love guarantees you power.
Wisdom paints a rainbow in your mind, joy paints a rainbow in your heart, and love paints a rainbow in your soul.
Pleasure awakens the body, wisdom awakens the mind, joy awakens the heart, and love awakens the soul.
Fear no one nor kneel before themFor many seek to be your god and masterAnd you sacrificial lamb in their fevered plansAnd insane ambitionsKhoiSan Book of Wisdom
Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.
If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.
Knowing what to say is sense, when to say it is intelligence, how to say it is wisdom, why and how to say it is enlightenment.
Esteem intelligence, cherish knowledge, and value understanding, but trust wisdom.
Be humble as you learn, confident as you teach, and modest when you have mastered both.
