Quotes on Philosophical

There is moderation in everything.

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly realities of the world, to keep oneself pure and so without responsibility for the cruelty and carnage all around. Becoming a vegetarian is a highly practical and effective step one can take toward ending both the killing of nonhuman animals and the infliction of suffering on them.

Philosophy is the highest music.

Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

While there's life, there's hope.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

..when, in my philosophical disquisitions, I deny a providence and a future state, I undermine not the foundations of society, but advance principles, which they themselves, upon their own topics, if they argue consistently, must allow to be solid and satisfactory.