The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.
Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.
Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.
Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.
The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.
It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.
The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionaries are philosophers and saints.
The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.
As to harmonizing the theory of evolution with the Biblical account of creation, I do not believe it can be done, and I do not see why it should be. The story of Genesis is beautiful, and profoundly significant as symbolism: there is no good reason to torture it into conformity with modern theory.
From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
As knowledge grew, fear decreased; men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.
There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
Communism is the opiate of the people.
Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game.
Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.
If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.