Philosophy Quotes

There is nothing outside the text.

Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hatred, and hatred leads to violence. This is the equation.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Why are there beings at all instead of nothing?

Esse est percipi (To be is to be perceived).

The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

Plurality is not to be posited without necessity.

By doubting we are led to inquire; by inquiry we perceive the truth.

Indeed, we believe that you are something than which nothing greater can be thought.

If there is a God, whence come evils? If there is no God, whence come goods?

All things are from the One, and the One is all things.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

Nothing is honorable or base, just or unjust; and likewise, nothing is true or false, but everything is a matter of custom and convention.

Man conquers the world by conquering himself.

Nothing exists; even if something exists, it cannot be known; even if something can be known, it cannot be communicated to others.

Man is the measure of all things: of things that are, that they are, and of things that are not, that they are not.

All things were in chaos, then Mind came and arranged them.

For it is by earth that we see earth, and by water water, and by air bright air, and by fire consuming fire, and by love love, and strife by strife.

That which, being added to another, does not make it larger, and, being taken away from another, does not make it smaller, is nothing.