33 Dark Philosophy Quotes That Will Keep You Up at Night
It is mind-blowing what the mind can create and think.
Great philosophers who lived throughout the ages have shown us
that different ways of thinking are entirely alien to
what our society encourages.
The 33 philosophical quotes in this article are meant
to enlighten your mind and open your eyes to new perspectives in life.
While some may challenge everything you stand for
or believe in, approach them all with a logical mind.
Here are the 33 Dark Philosophy Quotes That Will Keep You Up at Night:
1. “The less talent they have, the more pride, vanity, and arrogance they have. All these fools, however, find other fools who applaud them.”
Erasmus
2. “As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.”
Leonardo da Vinci
3. “The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
Aldous Huxley
4. “Learning never exhausts the mind.”
Leonardo da Vinci
5. “No tree can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”
Carl Jung
6. “Freedom is not achieved by satisfying desire, but by eliminating it.”
Epictetus
7. “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
Henry David Thoreau
8. “The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.”
Voltaire
9. “The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
Plato
10. “When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”
Thomas Sowell
11. “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
Mark Twain
12. “The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.”
Rumi
13. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. “To win any battle, you must fight as if you are already dead.”
Miyamoto Musashi
15. “One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.”
George Herbert
16. “The body should be treated rigorously, so that it may not be disobedient to the mind.”
Seneca
17. “The first and best victory is to conquer self.”
Plato
18. “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
Seneca
19. “Have more than you show, speak less than you know.”
William Shakespeare
20. “Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
Epictetus
21. “It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
Marcus Aurelius
22. “Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.”
Leonardo da Vinci
23. “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
Seneca
24. “Don’t be overheard complaining … not even to yourself.”
Marcus Aurelius
25. “Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.”
Albert Camus
26. “Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.”
Albert Camus
27. “Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!”
Leo Tolstoy
28. “If it’s endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining.”
Marcus Aurelius
29. “Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth.”
Valery Legasov
30. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
Leonardo da Vinci
31. “Above all, don’t lie to yourself.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
32. “A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything.”
Aristotle
33. “Stop talking about what the good man is like, and just be one.”
Marcus Aurelius
Bonus:
“Evil destroys even itself.”
Aristotle
“It is not the length of life, but the depth.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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