Quotes on Philosophical

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

A confession has to be part of your new life.

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

The world is independent of my will.

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.

A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Beware of the person of one book.

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.