“I must be cruel only to be kind;Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.”
More from Shakespeare on Philosophy
“Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.”
“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”
“Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace,Yet Grace must still look so.”
“Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.”
“There’s a divinity that shapes our ends,Rough-hew them how we will”
“To be or not to be that is the question.”
“That in the captain's but a choleric word,Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.”
“Thou art the thing itself: unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor bare, forked animal as thou art.”
“What a piece of work is man!”
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...”
Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
Isaac Asimov
13 quotes“Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.”