11 Most Important Philosophical Quotations

I have a few that have always meant a lot to me:

It is a good viewpoint to see the world as a dream.
When you have something like a nightmare,
you will wake up and tell yourself that it was only a dream.
It is said that the world we live in is not a bit different from this



There is something to be learned from a rainstorm.
When meeting with a sudden shower,
you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road.
But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses,
you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning,
you will not be perplexed, though you still get the same soaking.
This understanding extends to everything

-Yamamoto Tsunetomo "Hagakure"-


Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back of an ass.
- Kamiko Tosukawa -
( my grandmother, unknown where it came from originally but she used to tell me this as a boy)