philosophy
“And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.”
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.”
“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.”
“To philosophize is to learn to die.”
“The Monad, of which we shall speak, is a simple substance, without parts.”
“The present is pregnant with the future.”
“This is the best of all possible worlds.”
“Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.”
“The self is a relation that relates itself to itself.”
“Boredom is the root of all evil.”
“Subjectivity is truth.”
“Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.”
“Thoughts without content are empty; intuitions without concepts are blind.”
“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.”
“Philosophy and religion are both paths to truth.”
“The phenomena of human society are subject to laws.”
“Nature loves to hide.”
“The way up and the way down are one and the same.”
“No man ever steps in the same river twice.”
“Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.”