Philosophy Quotes

"Chaos isn't a pit Chaos is a ladder" "Maybe that's enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go." "Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them." "Every man must die" "Death is so terribly final while life is full of possibilities" "Melancholy is the happiness of being sad." "Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection." "To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful." "The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil" "The well-being of the people is the highest law" "I wish it need not have happened in my time said Frodo So do I said Gandalf and so do all who live to see such times But that is not for them to decide All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us" "It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust." "There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable." "The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." "In God's wildness lies the hope of the world"