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

“Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?”

“You have to believe in yourself.”

“Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people, people who know the conditions of the enemy.”

“You have to believe in yourself.”

“But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.”

“One hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful, subduing the other's military without battle is the most skillful.”

“Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.”

“I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage”

“It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.”

“Civilization is only possible for deeply unpleasant animals. It is only an ape that can be truly civilized.”

“Language disguises thought.”

“When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.”