Philosophy Quotes And Sayings

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“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
– Gabriel Garcí¬a Márquez

“No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.”
– George Lucas

“He who claims to be sure of something for which there is no evidence is a fool, and he who acts on the basis of what cannot be proved is an imposter.”
– Han Fei

“I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned.
– Harlan Ellison

“Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another?
– Haruki Murakami

“Time is a game played beautifully by children.”
– Heraclitus

“You only live twice:
– Ian Fleming

“Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.”
– Immanuel Kant

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
– Isaac Asimov

“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
– J.R.R. Tolkien

“We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming ‘sub-creator’ and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic ‘progress’ leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien

“If you only had 48 hours left to live, would you spend it like you normally spend your weekends? If not, why spend 2/7th of your life wasting your free time? After all, free time isn’t free. Free time is the most expensive time you have, because nobody pays for it but you. But that also makes it the most valuable time you have, as you alone stand to reap the profits from spending it wisely.”
– Jarod Kintz

“Nothing, Everything, Anything, Something: If you have nothing, then you have everything, because you have the freedom to do anything, without the fear of losing something.”
– Jarod Kintz

“Whether you live to be 50 or 100 makes no difference, if you made no difference in the world.”
– Jarod Kintz

“A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.”
– Jean-Jacques Rosseau

“Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.”
– Jean-Jacques Rosseau

“We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.”
– Jean-Jacques Rosseau

“We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.”
– Jean-Jacques Rosseau

“Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre

“If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre

“If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre

“When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre

“You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.”
– John Calvin

“Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?”
– Jonathan Safran Foer

“May you live every day of your life.”
– Jonathan Swift

“The first duty of a man is to think for himself”
– José Martí

“Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won’t have as much censorship because we won’t have as much fear.”
– Judy Blume

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