Philosophy

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

He who flies high falls low.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is nature's delight.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Ignorance: the root and stem of every evil.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

Become who you are.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

Character is destiny.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

No man ever steps in the same river twice.

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.

Common sense is not so common.

Nothing is ours, except time.

The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

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

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

The only constant in life is change.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.