Philosophy quotes — page 10

Man is a child of customs, not of his ancestors.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself as accepted in spite of being unacceptable.

Hope consists in asserting that there is at the heart of being… a mysterious principle which is in connivance with me.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Picture human beings as if living in an underground, cave-like dwelling.

First, it always is, and neither comes to be nor perishes.

This very practice of philosophers is a release and separation of soul from body.

I say that the noble and good man and woman are happy, and the unjust and wicked are miserable.

So too, by doing just acts we become just, by doing temperate acts temperate, and by doing brave acts brave.

For one swallow does not make a spring, nor does one day.

It is perhaps also strange to make the happy person a solitary.

It is possible to fail in many ways…but to succeed in only one.

Pleasant it is, when winds trouble the great sea, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation.

When human life lay foully for all to see, crushed to the earth under heavy religion…

From the very fountain of delights rises something bitter that chokes among the flowers themselves.

Take up and read; take up and read.

Do not go outside; return into yourself. Truth dwells in the inner man.

Two loves have made two cities.

Better a well-made head than a well-filled head.

I do not portray being. I portray passing.

Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own custom.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself.

It is of the nature of reason to perceive things under a certain form of eternity.

The true end of the state is in reality freedom.