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

“We were like deaf people trying to dance to a beat we couldn't hear, long after the music actually stopped.”

“There was rarely an obvious branching point in a person's life. People changed slowly, over time. You didn't take one step, then find yourself in a completely new location. You first took a little step off the path to avoid some rocks. For a while, you walked alongside the path, but then you wandered out a little way to step on softer soil. Then you stopped paying attention as you drifted farther and farther away. Finally, you found yourself in the wrong city, wondering why the signs on the roadway hadn't led you better.”

“Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.”

“That caravan looks as if it’s all Vorin. Also, you look a little spindly for a Horneater.”

“I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you’re not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book.”

“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for crisis.”

“All the philosophical theories that exist have been created by the mistaken dualistic minds of human beings. In the realm of philosophy, that which today is considered true, may tomorrow be proved to be false. No one can guarantee a philosophy's validity. Because of this, any intellectual way of seeing whatever is always partial and relative. The fact is that there is no truth to seek or to confirm logically; rather what one needs to do is to discover just how much the mind continually limits itself in a condition of dualism.”

“My reason for preferring the darkness is that in the dark you have to describe yourself. In the daylight other people describe you.”

“A false-statement requires deceit and distortion for someone to buy it, but a truthful-statement sells itself.”

“Empiricism teaches that there is a real world of fixed things on the outside and that ideas of these outside things are stamped on the mind which is at the beginning of life a blank.”