Quotes About Philosophy

Although none of the rules for becoming alive is valid it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts ... take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

A man's life is what his thoughts make it.

I am dying but otherwise I am quite well.

We think in generalities but we live in detail.

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

Power and wealth are not two of my main stakes.

The highest power is the human mind. That's where God came from and my belief in God is my belief in myself.

Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.

Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.

Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself.

All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.

If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.

Transcendental [numbers], They transcend the power of algebraic methods.

When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.

Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

The overwhelming majority of people, including Christians, are materialists. They do not believe in the power of spirit. They believe only in material power.

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.

The force of mind is only as great as its expression; its depth only as deep as its power to expand and lose itself.

The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.

By far the greatest discovery of all the centuries is the power of thought.

Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it's completely useless as far as I'm concerned.