The study of fundamental questions about existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.
"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular."
"To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man."
"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well."
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
"All men by nature desire knowledge."
"Philosophy can make people sick."
"Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder."
"It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,"
"He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost."
"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference."
"You have control over your mind, not outside events."
"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."