Philosophy Quotes

"The world will perish and all things pass" "There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke" "No one can be completely happy with a want of wisdom " "I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art" "In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity" "The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb grey hairs" "The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk." "World history is not the ground of happiness. The periods of happiness are the blank pages of history." "Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights." "To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual." "There's no such thing as a perfect book" "You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime" "The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life." "One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things." "The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of having imagination is to have a sense of life."