Philosophical Quotes

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually, your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their way to protect you unconditionally. You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

De omnibus dubitandum

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

To make a revolution, people must not only struggle against existing institutions. They must make a philosophical/ spiritual leap and become more 'human' human beings. In order to change/ transform the world, they must change/ transform themselves.

Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

There is no difference between the pain of humans and the pain of other living beings, since the love and tenderness of the mother for the young are not produced by reasoning, but by feeling, and this faculty exists not only in humans but in most living beings.

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.

He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the other beings too have been intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of anything else.