© selected from The Philosophy Book, DK
Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them. - Voltaire
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. - William Shakespeare
Happy is he who has overcome his ego. - Siddhartha Gautama
I am a citizen of the world. - Socrates
I died as a mineral and became a plant.
I died as a plant and rose to animal.
I died as animal and I was Man. - Rumi
It is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. - René Descartes
Man is but a reed, the weakest nature; yet he is a thinking reed. - Blaise Pascal
Immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous. - Bertrand Russell
The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery. - Bertrand Russell
What sort of a world can we prepare for our great-grandchildren? - Richard Rorty