60 Insights From Famous Philosophers That Are All *One* Sentence

“Two ears. One mouth. Use them proportionately.”

— Hamahamaseafood, reddit.com

“What shows up in our lives is a direct reflection of our inner thoughts and emotions.”

— Pam Grout, amazon.com

“Rational thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.”

— John Nash, nobelprize.org

“Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious things.”

— Randolph Bourne, monadnock.net

“Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”

— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com

“The moment of perceiving something beautiful confers on the perceiver the gift of life.”

— Elaine Scarry, amazon.com

“I know of nothing more difficult than knowing who you are and having the courage to share the reasons for the catastrophe of your character with the world.”

— David Shields, amazon.com

“Don't fight the problem. Decide it!”

— George Marshall, amazon.com

“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.”

— Marcus Garvey, amazon.com

“Learn to FORGIVE. Learn to FORGET.”

— Saisrikanth Rathakrishnan, quora.com

“Never do anything in anger.”

— Unknown, amazon.com

“Those who claim to write about something larger and more significant than the self sometimes fail to comprehend the dimensions of the self.”

— Sarah Manguso, amazon.com

“We are never real historians, but always near poets.”

— Gaston Bachelard, amazon.com

“The past does not cease to exist simply because we lose our memory of it.”

— Robert Pogue Harrison, amazon.com

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”

— Dale Carnegie, amazon.com

“If monkeys could reach the point of being bored, they could turn into human beings.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, amazon.com

“Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first call promising.”

— Cyril Connolly, amazon.com

“Everything is beautiful only so long as it does not concern us.’”

— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.com

“Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”

— Unknown, amazon.com

“Advance years bring greater trials.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, amazon.com

“Chaos is being yourself.”

— E.M Cioran, amazon.com

“Redefine your goal, so that it’s not to pursue justice or punish unfairness but to accept the unfairness of the world, bear the humiliation and helplessness that go with it, and then seek to do the most good.”

— Michael Bennett MD, amazon.com

“He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.”

— Plato, amazon.com

“The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.”

— W.H Auden, amazon.com

“For me there is one measure of true love: you can insult the other.”

— Slavoj Žižek, lacan.com

“Ignoring is universally acknowledged to be a worse punishment than death.”

— Benjamin Rush, amazon.com

“He who fears death will never do anything worthy of a living man.”

— Seneca, amazon.com

“I don't care how tall you are. I care how tall you play.”

— John Wooden, amazon.com

“Remember, loneliness is still time spent with the world.”

— Ocean Vuong, newyorker.com