Philosophy quotes — page 5

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions…be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

To abandon the struggle for private happiness…to burn with passion for eternal things — this is emancipation.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.

Any man can err; only a fool persists in error.

Do not seek for things to happen as you wish, but wish for things to happen as they do, and you will flow well.

What is not good for the hive is not good for the bee.

Man is a sacred thing to man.

Virtue does not come from money, but from virtue come money and all other good things for human beings.

We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts.

Nature's wealth has its bounds and is easy to procure; but the wealth of vain fancies recedes to an infinite distance.

It is impossible to think of anything at all in the world, or indeed even beyond it, that could be considered good without limitation except a good will.

There are more things to admire in men than to despise.

To will oneself free is also to will others free.

Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Depart then in peace; the one who releases you is also at peace.

The usefulness of living is not in length of days, but in their use: one may have lived long, and yet have lived little.

To know, in order to foresee, so as to be able to act.

Reading means thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own.

Solitude is the lot of all outstanding minds.

Marry, and you will regret it; do not marry, and you will also regret it.

Despair is not to will to be oneself — or else to will to be oneself.

Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events.