Philosophy Quote by Joyce Carol Oates — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.”

“. . . there is a wish in the heart of mankind to be distracted and confused. Truth is but one attraction, and not always the most powerful.”

“Unbidden, Unwelcome, Yet unable to resist, I entered a stranger's life”

“The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.”

“There is something female about being dead.”

“We need to walk to know sacred places, those around us and those within. We need to walk to remember the songs.”

“The poet Czesław Miłosz wrote in 1953 that 'only in the middle of the twentieth century did the inhabitants of many European countries come to understand, usually by way of suffering, that complex and difficult philosophy books have a direct influence on their fate.”

“…it can hardly be over-exaggerated that speculative thinking is always drawn from the necessities of the time, that it is always practical, that it always shifts with the interests of the times, with the changes of social, economic, and political conditions, and finally, that it is vain to hope to find an”

“There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who go with the flow, where destiny takes them, and those who fight their fate. While the formers are blessed with happiness, the latter achieve something far greater–fulfilment.”

“Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.”