Melancholy is an escape not from reality, but unreality of the world.
Fortunately or unfortunately, the greatest authority on matters of life is life itself.
We know the value of a blessing when we don't have it. But we only know the value of knowledge when we have enough of it.
The most crucial problem with intellectual learning is that it receives the unknown on the grounds of the known.
Impartiality is to accept that we are partial.
Gratitude is an overflow of the pleasure filling your soul.
The most brutal avenger on earth is a reality you ignored, however minor.
Do not judge a man by where he stands, but how he reached there.
Whenever we think, we construct a world that is centred upon the object of our thinking; whenever we act, we reconstruct a world that is centred upon ourselves.
The only satisfactory thing about death is that our knowledge about it is unsatisfactory.
What," "how," "when," etc are all questions more or less common to religion and philosophy. But to ask "why" is a transgression in religion, and this inquiry has undoubtedly taken the heaviest tolls o...
Religion and philosophy have different logics, speak different languages. Their logics are mutually exclusive, languages sometimes overlapping. It is hard to find something really common in them. I th...
Ideas can't die, not because they are conceived by humans, but because time begets them.
Destination is, ideally, where one should stop; and ideally, one should not stop. Practically, destination of a great man is where he wants to stop; of a common man, where he has to. The one ends with...
A man of character can have what a man of intellect can imagine.
Genuine wisdom has two major conditions: you cannot teach it, and you cannot make someone learn it.
The most ridiculous activity of human mind is questioning. Cognition of reality surpasses both question and answer, however ingenious.
The duty imposed on intellect by Life is not to suppress, but purify emotions.
If philosophy has to serve some really noble purpose, it must be more observant than critical towards life.
One only knows the sins of democracy against virtue when one is worthy enough to suffer from them.