“One must always be careful of books, and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
Cassandra Clare · City of Bones, 2007
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Philosophy Quotes
176 quotes on philosophy and the big questions — from the classics to the everyday.
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“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
Franz Kafka · Letter to Oskar Pollak, January 27, 1904
“People think I'm joking all the time. Sometimes I am. Sometimes I'm not.”
Oliver Tree
“The whole thing is a joke, but the pain is genuine.”
Oliver Tree
“Music is the only place I can be completely honest.”
Oliver Tree
“Everything I do is a character, but the emotions are real.”
Oliver Tree · Rolling Stone interview, 2020
“We are what we repeatedly do.”
Aristotle · Nicomachean Ethics
“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Socrates · Plato, Apology, 399 BC
“I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.”
Elon Musk · SXSW, 2013
“When I was a child, there's one thing that made me feel the most despair, which was reading about the heat death of the universe.”
Elon Musk · Interview, various
“I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad.”
Elon Musk · Rolling Stone interview, 2017
“Something there is that doesn't love a wall.”
Robert Frost · Mending Wall, 1914
“All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
Voltaire · Zadig, 1747
“Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.”
Voltaire
“It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.”
Voltaire
