Philosophical Quotes And Sayings

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“Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“One cannot step twice in the same river”
– Heraclitus

“Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.”
– Heraclitus, Eustathius

“Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination”
– Immanuel Kant

“Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck”
– Immanuel Kant

“We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.”
– Jean Toomer

“An old man who marries a young wife grows younger – but she grows older.”
– Jeanne Moreau

“The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation”
– Jeremy Bentham

“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.”
– Joanne Woodward

“We learn only from those we love.”
– Johann Von Eckermann

“To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.”
– John Burroughs

“It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos.”
– John L. McClenahan

“Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.”
– John Lancaster Spalding

“No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience”
– John Locke

“The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone”
– John Locke

“Liberty consists in doing what one desires”
– John Stuart Mill

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
– Lao Tzu

“A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure.”
– Lee Segall

“Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.”
– Lewis Carrol

“Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.”
– Ludwig Börne

“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre

“He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form.”
– Marcus Aurelius

“You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they’re simply unbearable.”
– Marguerite Duras

“He who thinks great thoughts, often makes great errors”
– Martin Heidegger

“You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.”
– Navajo Proverb

“Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent love protects you from age.”
– Jeanne Moreau

“God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us”
– Niccolo Machiavelli

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
– Nietzsche

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