Philosophy Quote by Lao Tzu — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“He who talks more is sooner exhausted.”

“If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.”

“Silence is a source of great strength.”

“Be the chief but never the lord.”

“We join spokes together in a wheel,”

“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”

“Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.”

“Where the world comes in my way—and it comes in my way everywhere—I consume it to quiet the hunger of my egoism. For me you are nothing but—my food, even as I too am fed upon and turned to use by you. We have only one relation to each other, that of”

“The romantic movement, in art, in literature, and in politics, is bond up with this subjective way of judging men, not as members of a community, but as aesthetically delightful objects of contemplation. Tigers are more beautiful than sheep, but we prefer them behind bars. The typical romantic removes the bars and enjoys the magnificent leaps with which the tiger annihilates the sheep. He exhorts men to imagine themselves tigers, and when he succeeds the results are not wholly pleasant.”

“Godshawk looked surprised, the way that people generally do when you ask them philosophical questions in shrubberies in the middle of the night.”

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”