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.
Truth can conquer but only beauty can rule.
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...
Humans are one, not divided, but multiplied into many.
The duty imposed on intellect by Life is not to suppress, but purify emotions.
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...
One only knows the sins of democracy against virtue when one is worthy enough to suffer from them.
Ideas can't die, not because they are conceived by humans, but because time begets them.
Do not judge a man by where he stands, but how he reached there.
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...
Impartiality is to accept that we are partial.
The truth is not what I look for. It is what I look at!
Friends; the more, the less!
Judge, criticize, object before you decide to believe something; but once you believe, you're but an idiot if you need to be scrupulous any more.
If philosophy has to serve some really noble purpose, it must be more observant than critical towards life.
Peace, love and beauty are goals shared by every human heart. The question is whether our minds recognize them as such.
A man of character can have what a man of intellect can imagine.
Ignorance binds people tighter than culture.
The most ridiculous activity of human mind is questioning. Cognition of reality surpasses both question and answer, however ingenious.