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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

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

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

There was never a wise saying that couldn't be made wiser by adding the words, "and vice-versa.

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

Your life is a series of moments in "now." The better you make your "now" the better your life.

Everything one records contains a grain of hope, no matter how deeply it may come from despair.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow.

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.

Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.

A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.

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

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime.

The reality of having a kid involves day-to-day practicality - not broader philosophical outlooks.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.

A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida.

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

Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.

We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers.

Without the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France.

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.

The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.

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