Quotes on Philosophical

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law.

The motive power of democracy is love

We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.

True time is four-dimensional.

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

Our music has depth, and attempts philosophical thought and meaning with discussions of infinity, eternity and mortality. There is a line which people cross that turns it into some magical, mystical realm, for which I dont claim responsibility and dont hold any great truck with.

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.

It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food

At this time is freedom anything but the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.