Philosophy quotations

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◆ You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

- Khalil Gibran99

◆ Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

- Albert Camus99

◆ It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

- Friedrich Nietzsche99

◆ If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?

- Albert Einstein99

◆ A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

- Albert Einstein99

◆ Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

- Isaac Asimov99

◆ There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

- William Shakespeare99

◆ Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

- Dr. Seuss99

◆ Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.

- Plato99

◆ Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

- Frank Zappa99

◆ There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

- Elie Wiesel99

◆ Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

- Benjamin Spock99

◆ The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

- Albert Einstein99

◆ Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

- Bertrand Russell99

◆ You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

- Malcolm X99