Philosophy

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."

"Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder."

"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular."

"Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity."

"Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?"

"You cannot open a book without learning something."

"It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature."

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."

"It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,"

"There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people."

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."

"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep."

"We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want."

"Philosophy can make people sick."

"Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know."

"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend."

"It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster."

"Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody."

"Sometimes, when I see my grand daughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child."

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

"What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?"

"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."

"It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think."