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

“For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses.”

“Men, Kellhus had once told her, were like coins: they had two sides. Where one side of them saw, the other side of them was seen, and though all men were both at once, men could only truly know the side of themselves that saw and the side of others that was seen—they could only truly know the inner half of themselves and the outer half of others.”

“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”

“Nature, it seems, is the popular name”

“Yet even in the loneliness of the canyon I knew there were others like me who had brothers they did not understand but wanted to help. We are probably those referred to as "our brother's keepers," possessed of one of the oldest and possible one of the most futile and certainly one of the most haunting instincts. It will not let us go.”

“Every philosophy is a foreground philosophy — that is a hermit's judgment: "There is something arbitrary in his stopping”