Philosophy Quotes

[theconsolationofphilosophy]

Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect and so on. Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy.

Emil Cioran from The Trouble With Being Born

[theconsolationofphilosophy]

In becoming forcibly and essentially aware of my mortality, and of what I wished and wanted for my life, however short it might be, priorities and omissions became strongly etched in a merciless light, and what I most regretted were my silences.

Audre Lorde from Sister Outsider 

[theconsolationofphilosophy]

We fluctuate long between love and hatred before we can arrive at tranquility.

Heloise

[theconsolationofphilosophy]

It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.

Peter Abelard 

[theconsolationofphilosophy]

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Viktor Frankl 

[theconsolationofphilosophy]

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Malcolm X

[theconsolationofphilosophy]

Existence precedes essence

Jean-Paul Sartre 

[theconsolationofphilosophy]

And it is because you don't know the end and purpose of things that you think the wicked and the criminal have power and happiness.

Boethius from the consolation of philosophy

[theconsolationofphilosophy]

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

Malcolm X 

[theconsolationofphilosophy]

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Diogenes 

[theconsolationofphilosophy]

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

Emma Goldman 

[theconsolationofphilosophy]

By words the mind is winged

Sophocles 

[theconsolationofphilosophy]

If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods' bodies the same shape as their own.

Xenophanes 

[theconsolationofphilosophy]

One: Don't fear god. Two: Don't worry about death. Three: what is good is easy to get. Four: The terrible is easy to endure

The four part cure from Epicures 

[theconsolationofphilosophy]

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes 

[theconsolationofphilosophy]

To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.

Bayard Rustin

[theconsolationofphilosophy]

May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.

Sappho