All Quotes By Tag: Philosophy

“Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.”

“Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people.”

“All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.”

“Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.”

“There is your truth and there is my truth. As for the universal truth, it does not exist.”

“Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust. Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override. For this reason justice denies that the loss of freedom for some is made right by a greater good shared by others. It does not allow that the sacrifices imposed on a few are outweighed by the larger sum of advantages enjoyed by many. Therefore in a just society the liberties of equal citizenship are taken as settled; the rights secured by justice are not subject to political bargaining or to the calculus of social interests.”

“Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.”

“Youth is an intoxication without wine, someone says. Life is an intoxication. The only sober man is the melancholiac, who, disenchanted, looks at life, sees it as it really is, and cuts his throat. If this be so, I want to be very drunk. The great thing is to live, to clutch at our existence and race away with it in some great and enthralling pursuit. Above all, I must beware of all ultimate questions- they are too maddeningly unanswerable- let me eschew philosophy and burn Omar.”

“And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, “Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!”

“Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?”

“We can speak and think only of what exists. And what exists is uncreated and imperishable for it is whole and unchanging and complete. It was not or nor shall be different since it is now, all at once, one and continuous.”

“No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.”

“I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world.”

“Those who are wise won’t be busy, and those who are too busy can’t be wise.”

“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.”