All Quotes By Tag: Philosophy

“When you realize there is something you don’t understand, then you’re generally on the right path to understanding all kinds of things.”

“The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.”

“Do you know what punishments I’ve endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men’s most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn’t tolerate my existence.”

“Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.”

“Words do not express thoughts very well; every thing immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom of one man seems nonsense to another.”

“Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.”

“I think, therefore I’ll think.”

“Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.”

“I am a sick man… I am a spiteful man. I am an unpleasant man. I think my liver is diseased. However, I don’t know beans about my disease, and I am not sure what is bothering me. I don’t treat it and never have, though I respect medicine and doctors. Besides, I am extremely superstitious, let’s say sufficiently so to respect medicine. (I am educated enough not to be superstitious, but I am.) No, I refuse to treat it out of spite. You probably will not understand that. Well, but I understand it. Of course I can’t explain to you just whom I am annoying in this case by my spite. I am perfectly well aware that I cannot “get even” with the doctors by not consulting them. I know better than anyone that I thereby injure only myself and no one else. But still, if I don’t treat it, its is out of spite. My liver is bad, well then– let it get even worse!”

“One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.”

“Inevitably it follows that anyone with an independent mind must become ‘one who resists or opposes an authority or established convention’: a rebel. …And if enough people come to agree with—and follow—the REBEL, we now have a DEVIL. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have … GREATNESS.”

“Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.”

“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”

“I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.”

“Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn’t quite as spectacular.”