Philosophy Quotes

“Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.” — Rainer Maria Rilke ✱ @philosophors

“Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-460

“In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” — Albert Camus ✱ @philosophors

“You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.” — Carl Jung ✱ @philosophors

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.” — Seneca the Younger ✱ @philosophors

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” — Simone Weil ✱ @philosophors

“This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.” — Franz Kafka https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-457

“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.” — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ✱ @philosophors

“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.” — Ludwig van Beethoven ✱ @philosophors

“Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.” — Ray Bradbury https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-455

“Love is only known by him who hopelessly persists in love.” — Friedrich Schiller ✱ @philosophors

“We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.” — Charlie Chaplin https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-454

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.” — Robert Frost ✱ @philosophors

“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.” — Leo Tolstoy ✱ @philosophors

“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.” — Friedrich Nietzsche https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-452

“It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.” — Voltaire ✱ @philosophors

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” — Mahatma Gandhi ✱ @philosophors

“We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.” — Albert Camus https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-448

“I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.” — Rainer Maria Rilke https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-447

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.” — Colette ✱ @philosophors