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

“As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.”

“The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.”

“Great acts are made up of small deeds.”

“If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.”

“He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.”

“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.”

“let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.”

“The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life―until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty.”

“the problem with accepting things that are contradictory as possibly right is that you cannot possibly be thinking yourself when you do it.”

“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”

“We all have the beast in us Bill, and it is up to us to control it.”

“There is a truth in Schopenhauer’s view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and end, is a sort of contradiction. ... In philosophy matters are not simple enough for us to say ‘Let’s get a rough idea’, for we do not know the country except by knowing the connections between the roads.”