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

“Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.”

“A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the cover laminated in plastic so her daughter could cut her teeth on the great thinker.”

“If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.”

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

“While many explorers like to endure hardship by traveling to remote inhospitable parts of the world, I prefer to explore from the comfort of my own home.”

“O world, world when I was younger I thought there was some order governing you and your deeds. But now you seem to be a labyrinth of errors, a frightful desert, a den of wild beasts, a game in which men move in circles…a stony field, a meadow full of serpents, a flowering but barren orchard, a spring of cares, a river of tears, a sea of suffering, a vain hope.”