Philosophy Quotes

"You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul." "Poetry should be able to comprehend the earth" "Live or die, but don't poison everything" "The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar" "Wealth is the slave of a wise man and the master of a fool." "To be everywhere is to be nowhere." "Life, if well lived, is long enough." "Man is affected not by events but by the view he takes of them." "No man was ever wise by chance." "Men find happiness neither by means of the body nor through possessions but through uprightness and wisdom" "I would rather discover one cause than gain the kingdom of Persia" "It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man" "You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours." "Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother" "The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is"