Philosophy Quote by Steven Erikson — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“A civilization at war chooses only the most obvious enemy, and often also the one perceived, at first, to be the most easily defeatable. But that enemy is not the true enemy, nor is it the gravest threat to that civilization. Thus, a civilization at war often chooses the wrong enemy.”

“Death cannot be struggled against, brother. It ever arrives, defiant of every hiding place, of every frantic attempt to escape. Death is every mortal's shadow, his true shadow, and time is its servant, spinning that shadow slowly round, until what stretched before one now stretched before him.”

“Children understood at a very young age that doing nothing was an expression of power. Doing nothing was a choice swollen with omnipotence. It was, in fact, godly.”

“A civilization can easily drown in what it knows as in what doesn't know. Consider,' he continued, Gotho's Folly. Gotho's curse was in being too aware - of everything. Every permutation, every potential. Enough to poison every scan he cast on the world. It availed him naught, and worse, he was aware of even that.”

“And so we weep for the fallen. We weep for those yet to fall, and in war the screams are loud and harsh and in peace the wail is so drawn-out we tell ourselves we hear nothing.”

“The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.”

“Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?”

“You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.”

“True beauty is measured by the number of pearls within you, not those around your neck.”

“Some truths don’t need to be spoken — they echo in silence, between the words we never dared to say.”

“Philosophy can make people sick.”