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

“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”

“Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.”

“Say not, “I have found the truth,” but rather, “I have found a truth.”

“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.”

“We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of the tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and are scattered.”

“Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul.”

“Sufficiently simple natural structures are predictable but uncontrollable, whereas sufficiently complex symbolic descriptions are controllable but unpredictable.”

“The brightest light casts the darkest shadow.”

“We love ourselves notwithstanding our faults, and we ought to love our friends in like manner.”

“Doors of opportunity are always open around you—you just have to find them.”

“[I]f the basic claims of religion are true, the scientific worldview is so blinkered and susceptible to supernatural modification as to be rendered nearly ridiculous; if the basic claims of religion are false, most people are profoundly confused about the nature of reality, confounded by irrational hopes and fears, and tending to waste precious time and attention--often with tragic results. Is this really a dichotomy about which science can claim to be neutral?”

“The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that movement precedes you, then how could you ever call your thoughts your own? How could you be anything other than a slave to the darkness that comes before?”