The study of fundamental questions about existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.
"There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy."
"The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next."
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."
"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
"No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born."
"You have power over your mind, not outside events."
"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well."
"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"
"To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man."
"All things fade and quickly turn to myth."
"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular."
"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference."