All Quotes By Tag: Philosophy

“It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.”

“As long as we are children, we have the ability to experience things around us–but then we grow used to the world. To grow up is to get drunk on sensory experience.”

“The moment you stop trying to become a better person, is the moment you start to become worse than what you already are.”

“Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.”

“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”

“The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.”

“The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without: to follow one’s own path, not that of the crowd.”

“Choose to be happy. It is what we have all done.”

“No man was ever wise by chance”

“Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait and hope.”

“If you don’t behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.”

“One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else.”

“Son, never trust a man who doesn’t drink because he’s probably a self-righteous sort, a man who thinks he knows right from wrong all the time. Some of them are good men, but in the name of goodness, they cause most of the suffering in the world. They’re the judges, the meddlers. And, son, never trust a man who drinks but refuses to get drunk. They’re usually afraid of something deep down inside, either that they’re a coward or a fool or mean and violent. You can’t trust a man who’s afraid of himself. But sometimes, son, you can trust a man who occasionally kneels before a toilet. The chances are that he is learning something about humility and his natural human foolishness, about how to survive himself. It’s damned hard for a man to take himself too seriously when he’s heaving his guts into a dirty toilet bowl.”

“It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.”

“What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money … but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth … In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are “coins” for real things.”