The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Albert EinsteinTags: philosophy wonder curiosity
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Friedrich NietzscheTags: inspirational music philosophy
Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeates all things.
HeraclitusTags: wisdom philosophy heraclitus
Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.
HeraclitusTags: wisdom philosophy heraclitus
Time is a game played beautifully by children.
HeraclitusTags: wisdom philosophy leisure time games heraclitus fragment-52 play
Even a soul submerged in sleep
is hard at work and helps
make something of the world.
Tags: wisdom philosophy sleep heraclitus
To be evenminded
is the greatest virtue.
Wisdom is to speak
the truth and act
in keeping with its nature.
Tags: wisdom philosophy heraclitus open-mindedness
People ought to fight
to keep their law
as to defend the citys walls.
Tags: wisdom freedom philosophy heraclitus
The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure.
John Stuart MillTags: pain ethics philosophy pleasure greatest-happiness-principle moral-philosophy utilitarianism utility
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.
Graham GreeneTags: life philosophy insight
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