🏺 Philosophy

“Know thyself.”

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

“When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. When the student is truly ready, the teacher will disappear.”

“Change your life today. Do not gamble on the future, act now without delay.”

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our freedom.”

“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.”

“Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.”

“Silence is the language of God; all else is poor translation.”

“It is much safer to be feared than loved, if one cannot be both.”

“Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”

“Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.”

“One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”

“The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster”

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”

“All of humanitys problems stem from mans inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”

“A leader is best when people barely know he exists.”

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”

“The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.”

“No man is an island”

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

“I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.”

“Things do not change; we change.”

“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason or it can be thrown through the window.”

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”

“The only way to be truly free is to accept your limitations.”

“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”

“Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.”

“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

“Life is short, and it's up to you to make it sweet.”

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”

“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”

“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”

“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”

“We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.”

“I would rather die having spoken after my manner, than speak in your manner and live.”

“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”

“Existence precedes essence.”

“The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.”

“Ethics precedes ontology.”

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.”

“The face of the other commands me.”

“The real question of life after death is not whether it exists, but whether it is worth worrying about.”

“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.”

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”