Philosophical Quotes

At this time is freedom anything but the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

There is a tide in the affairs of men

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

The only thing I know is that I know nothing

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.

Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.

Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.

The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.

Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.

God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.

A man's character is his fate.

Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.

Everyone has an enemy. It's why God gave us baseball bats. Well, He gave us trees, but we knew what He meant.

We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers.

He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.

In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.

The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.

Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.

People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are.

In my downtime, for fun, I engage in philosophical internet debates. Yeah, I'm that guy.

The winding down of summer puts me in a heavy philosophical mood.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.

My love is unconditional. Your action is irrelevant.

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

My philosophy is: If you can't have fun, there's no sense in doing it.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153