Quotes on “philosophy”

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.

I'm looking into my past lives. I'm convinced some of them still owe me money.

I'm very polite by nature, even the voices in my head let each other finish their sentences.

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.

For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?

No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.

I think I am, therefore, I am... I think.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.

He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing .

Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.

Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.