Philosopher Quotes

But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves.
God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.
It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.
Men create the gods in their own image.
No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.
Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?
I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things.
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