Quotes on “philosophy”

Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is.

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

If you're gonna burn a bridge behind you, make sure you've crossed it first.

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

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

Cats don't need to be possessed; they're evil on their own.

Travel is never a matter of money but of courage

You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.

God is an ever-receding pocket of? scientific ignorance.

I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: ‘Have you HEARD THIS?

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.

If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.

He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.