Philosophy Quotes - Page 7

What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.

Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.

Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.

Travel is never a matter of money but of courage

Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.

The treacherous are ever distrustful.

Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.

If your life is worth thinking about,it is worth writing about.

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

He who is more mindful of one, loses the love and the faith of both.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular.

To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.

A painting is more than the sum of its parts,' he would tell me, and then go on to explain how the cow by itself is just a cow, and the meadow by itself is just grass and flowers, and the sun peeking through the trees is just a beam of light, but put them all together and you've got magic.

The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.