Philosophy — Page 2

“Nature does nothing in vain.”

“The beginning of wisdom is the acknowledgment of one's own ignorance.”

“Two things fill the mind with ever-new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.”

“To be wise you must learn to be foolish.”

“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there.”

“Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which flows from me into the future, and I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.”

“I rebel, therefore we exist.”

“Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.”

“Tears are the stuff of human affairs.”

“There are no facts, only interpretations.”

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”

“Existence precedes essence.”

“The good is the beautiful and the beautiful is the good.”

“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”

“A sound mind in a sound body.”

“Let no man think lightly of evil, saying in his heart, It will not come nigh unto me.”

“Nothing in the world is softer and weaker than water, and yet nothing is better at overcoming the hard and strong.”

“Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.”

“The proper study of mankind is man.”