Quotes from Philosphers and about Philosophy

"To ask the hard question is simple."

-W. H. Auden

"The obvious is always least understood"

-Prince Metternich

"You lose it if you talk about it."

-Ernest Hemingway

"Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both."

-Eleanor Roosevelt

"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend."

-William Blake

"If you look long enough into the void the void begins to look back through you."

-Nietzsche

"He turns all of his injuries into strengths, that which does not kill h im makes him stronger, he is superman."

-Nietzsche

"God is Dead!"

-Nietzsche

"'Nietzsche is Dead!' -God"

-Graphitti

"As long as the answer is right, who cares if the question is wrong"

-???

"I am what I am, and that's all that I am"

-Popeye

"Do not question what makes you happy; questioning ruins the source of happiness."

-Me

"Death is lifes way of telling us to slow down."

-???

"Nothing can change the past but everything can change the future."

-???

"Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood."

-Carl Gustav Jung

"Who are a little wise the best fools be."

-John Donne (The Triple Fool)

"A fool must now and then be right by chance."

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"All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers ... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born."

-Francois Fenelon

"All my life I wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific"

-Jane Wagner

"Any excuse will serve a tyrant."

-Aesop

"Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there."

- Sydney J. Harris

"A person's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendall Holmes

"If the only took you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."

-Abraham Maslow

"When the speaker and he to whom he is speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics."

-Voltaire

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."

-Norman Cousins

"We all know that art is not truth. Art is the lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand."

-Pablo Picasso

Homo sum, et humani nihil a me alienum puto. ("I am a human, and nothing human is alien to me.")

-Terence (180-159 BC)

"All things change, nothing perishes."

-Ovid (B.C. 43-18 A.D.)

"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments -- there are consequences."

-Robert G. Ingersoll

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

-Edmund Burke

"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it."

-Karl Marx (Theses on Feuerbach)

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