All Quotes By Tag: Philosophy

“Philosophy can make people sick.”

“If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.”

“If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?”

“If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.”

“Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.”

“Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.”

“…only in the surrender of the light could the darkness prevail.”

“There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.”

“All the times I have suddenly realized that my parents are dead, even now, it still surprises me, to exist in the world while that which made me has ceased to exist.”

“Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?”

“Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.”

“Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.”

“If you can’t fight and you can’t flee, flow.”

“Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.”

“Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We’ve been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.”