“Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.”
More from Saint Augustine on Philosophy
“What you are must always displease you if you would attain to that which you are not.”
“It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.”
“The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.”
“The greatest evil is physical pain.”
“You are not the mind itself. For You are the Lord God of the mind. All these things are liable to change, but You remain immutable above all things.”
“Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.”
“Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?”
“His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses: present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.”
“If you have understood, then what you have understood is not God.”
Others on Philosophy
Ludwig Wittgenstein
22 quotes“The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.”
Christopher Hitchens
22 quotes“How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal object of...”
Nietzsche
22 quotes“One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.”
Carl Jung
21 quotes“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
Immanuel Kant
20 quotes“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”
Heraclitus
19 quotes“All things flow nothing abides.”
H. L. Mencken
17 quotes“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”
C.S. Lewis
15 quotes“[Consciousness] is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
14 quotes“Consciousness is man's greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfaction...”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”
Buddha
13 quotes“Doubt everything. Find your own light.”