Philosophy Quotes

We do not judge the people we love.Jean-Paul Sartre

f the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.Saint Thomas Aquinas

Compassion is the basis of morality.Arthur Schopenhauer

Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.Saint Thomas Aquinas

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.Jean-Paul Sartre

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.Saint Thomas Aquinas

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.Saint Thomas Aquinas

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.Arthur Schopenhauer

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.Saint Thomas Aquinas

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.Jean-Paul Sartre