Philosophical Quotes - Page 6

At this time is freedom anything but the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

There is a tide in the affairs of men

Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

A man's character is his fate.

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

The only thing I know is that I know nothing

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.

The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.

The highest Hindu intellectual training was based on the practice of yoga, and produced, as its fruit, those marvellous philosophical systems, the six Darshanas and the Brahma Sutras, which are still the delight of scholars and the inspiration of occultists and mystics.

The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.

Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.