philosophy

Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are. José Ortega y Gasset

“When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there’s all heaven and earth in a book, a real book I mean.” Christopher Morley

To enter into your own mind you need to be armed to the teeth. Paul Valéry

The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself. Iris Murdoch

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake. Meister Eckhart

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The aim of argument should not be to win, but progress. Karl Popper

If I only did what I can do, I wouldn’t do anything. Jacques Derrida

I hear it said of somebody that he is leading a double life. I think to myself: Just two? Leon Wieseltier

“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom...You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.” William Blake

He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at. Epictetus

Everything’s already been said, but since no one was listening, we have to start again. André Gide

"When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser." Socrates

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's. Fyodor Dostoevsky

"We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope." Epictetus

"Happiness can exist only in acceptance." George Orwell

It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid? Richard Bach

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness. Aristotle