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

“A short saying oft contains much wisdom.”

“Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.”

“Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.”

“A short saying often contains much wisdom.”

“Numberless are the worlds wonders, but none more wonderful than man.”

“The truth is what I cherish and that's my strength”

“A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules of its game. A text remains, moreover, forever imperceptible. Its laws and rules are not, however, harbored in the inaccessibility of a secret; it is simply that they can never be booked, in the present, into anything that could rigorously be called a perception.”

“When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.”

“Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope.”

“Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or silly action for no other reason than because he knows he should”

“Mortals are odd creatures in that sense—flawed yet hopeful. One can study them through millennia and still get nowhere near full understanding of their nature.”

“Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give dogs to chew, damned good for the mind's teeth, but as food - no bloody good at all.”