Philosophy Quotes

"The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things." "Neither family, nor children, nor intercourse with others can be rightly ordered until the passions and desires are brought under subjection." "Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil." "There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot." "If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot" "There is more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty" "Time is the only critic without ambition" "Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power" "The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt" "It is not enough to possess a good mind; one must also apply it" "The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues" "If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little" "Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body" "When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front-row seat" "As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything"