Philosophy Quotes

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.