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Philosophy quotes — page 18

Quotations 409–432 of 692.

  1. Heaven and earth were born together with me, and the myriad things and I are one.
  2. One must temper oneself in the midst of affairs; only then can one stand firm — settled in stillness and settled in action alike.
  3. Hatreds never cease through hatred in this world.
  4. Contacts with the senses, O son of Kunti, give cold and heat, pleasure and pain; they come and go — endure them.
  5. Go drink tea.
  6. Spring has a hundred flowers, autumn the moon; summer a cool breeze, winter the snow. If no idle affairs hang in the mind, every season is a fine season in the human world.
  7. If the youth are wise, the nation is wise; if the youth are prosperous, the nation is prosperous; if the youth are strong, the nation is strong.
  8. Having become a pawn that has crossed the river, one can only press desperately forward.
  9. The function of philosophy is not to increase positive knowledge, but to raise the level of the spirit.
  10. Human life is but a yearning — to look toward the far and toward the high.
  11. Democratic societies have a natural taste for liberty.
  12. How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature which interest him in the fortune of others.
  13. Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.
  14. We do not think real time. But we live it.
  15. Don’t think, but look!
  16. My propositions serve as elucidations in this way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical.
  17. Three metamorphoses of the spirit I name for you: how the spirit becomes a camel, and the camel a lion, and the lion at last a child.
  18. What does not kill me makes me stronger.
  19. Do not be troubled about whether the rest of life will be long or short, as if that mattered much.
  20. It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.
  21. It is impossible to live pleasantly without living wisely, finely, and justly.
  22. I do not seek to understand so that I may believe, but I believe so that I may understand.
  23. Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.
  24. Human knowledge and human power meet in one.