Philosophy Quotes

"If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time" "Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make not a place you must find" "Randomness is indistinguishable from complicated, undirected effort" "Stoicism is about the domestication of emotions, not their elimination" "Ideas are, in truth, forces infinite too for good or evil" "Experience is never limited and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue" "It is evident that everything is in a continual flux, and it is as impossible to find any certain individual in the world as it is to take up any definite quantity of water in the ocean." "The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently, as in its source." "Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another." "There is nothing without a reason." "Men act like brutes only when they do not understand what is true or good." "Nothing is in the mind which was not first in the senses, except the mind itself." "A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education." "The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time." "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience."