Quotes on “philosophy”

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

The past has no power over the present moment.

Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.

Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.

A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.