Quotes on Philosophical

Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.

It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet

The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

The illusion of the seventh veil was the illusion that you could get somebody else to do it for you. To think for you. To hang on your cross. The priest, the rabbi, the imam, the swami, the philosophical novelist were traffic cops, at best. They might direct you through a busy intersection, but they wouldn't follow you home and park your car.

An unexamined life is a life of no account.

A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

Everything in the world is purchased by labor.

Transcendence constitutes selfhood.

A great fortune is a great slavery.