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

“Numberless are the worlds wonders, but none more wonderful than man.”

“Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.”

“The truth is what I cherish and that's my strength”

“A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist”

“Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till some one dash it from them.”

“A short saying often contains much wisdom.”

“Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself.”

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”

“I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats.”

“All the things we experience in life can be separated into two realms, the realm of the concept and the realm of the senses.”

“Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.”