Philosophical Quotes - Page 11

Wisest is he who knows what he does not know.

'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

An unexamined life is a life of no account.

You just listen to your own heart. That is your only teacher.

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

Before all else, be armed.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

God is a philosophical black hole-the point where reason breaks down.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Man is the cruelest animal.

A favorite pro-abortion tactic is to insist that the definition of when life begins is impossible; that the question is a theological or moral or philosophical one, anything but a scientific one. Fetology makes it undeniably evident that life begins at conception and requires all the protection and safeguards that any of us enjoy....As a scientist I know, not believe, know that human life begins at conception.

God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.

When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.