Quotes on “philosophy”

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.

And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

The first duty of a man is to think for himself

May you live every day of your life.

Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly if there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter

The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely.

All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them.

The treacherous are ever distrustful.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.

Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeates all things.

To be evenminded is the greatest virtue.Wisdom is to speakthe truth and actin keeping with its nature.

Time is a game played beautifully by children.

Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged