Philosophy Quotes

"Prisons are called 'correctional facilities' because the goal is to correct the behavior that sent people there."

- Charlie Kirk

"Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?"

- Peter Kropotkin

"Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons."

- Richard Wright

"If we don't know life, how can we know death?"

- Confucius

"Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven."

- Confucius

"Roads were made for journeys, not destinations."

- Confucius

"It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great."

- Confucius

"I slept and dreamt life is beauty, I woke and found life is duty."

- Confucius

"Should we say the self, once perceived, becomes the soul?"

- Theodore Roethke

"I used to think that people were in my way, but I’ve come to realize that they’re just part of the journey."

- Jim Carrey

"The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them."

- Confucius

"The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them."

- Henry David Thoreau

"There is nothing you can see that is not a Bashoflower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon."

- Matsuo Basho

"This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can’t see how deep it is."

- Dennis Rodman

"Why endeavor to straighten the road of life? The faster we travel, the less there is to see."

- Helen Hayes

"Sport teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose - it teaches you about life."

- Billie Jean King

"I can't die but once."

- Harriet Tubman

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."

- Mark Twain

"Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives."

- Alan Sachs

"Death —the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening."

- Walter Scott

"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings."

- Socrates

"The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the way life is."

- Hugh Laurie

"The grave itself is but a covered bridge, leading from light to light, through a brief darkness."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"La vida es un momento"

"Death is nothing at all."

"He who is not prepared to die is not fit to live."

"The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague."

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness."

"What is lovely never dies, but passes into another loveliness."