#philosophy

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

I am wiser than this man; for neither of us appears to know anything great and good, but he thinks he knows something when he does not, whereas I neither know nor think that I know.

Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying, and they fear death least of all men.

The body is the source of endless trouble to us by reason of the mere necessity of food; and is liable also to diseases which overtake and impede us in the search after true being.

He who has not the spirit of philosophy will wander through life as a stranger in his own home.

Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I will obey the god rather than you, and as long as I have breath and strength I will never cease from philosophy.

It is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is still theoretically possible.

A philosopher is just a man who thinks in an unusually obstinate way.

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.

The act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one.

Doubt is the sacred key to the portal of genuine knowledge; he who doubts nothing examines nothing.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Not all who wander into the wilderness are lost; some are seeking the uncontaminated spring.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.

Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

A dog has the soul of a philosopher.

The right question is usually more important than the right answer.

The heart that is broken by sorrow will find in philosophy its sweetest balm.