Philosophy Quotes

"Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt."

"The countenance is the portrait of the mind, the eyes are its informers."

"The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking."

"I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter."

"I never mind contorting myself for a good cause."

"I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for."

"Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference."

"We think too much and feel too little."

"I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep."

"I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures."

"The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason."

"The brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy."

"The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong."

"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning."

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."

"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world."

"It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways."

"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves."

"The mind is everything. What you think you become."

"I think the 16 years that I spent in Green Bay speaks for itself."