Philosphy Tarot

The deck is ever evolving, with new quotes and sayings being added, and ones that are no longer important to me being taken out. Here is a list of most of the quotes that have been in it over its time. Feel free to make your own copy (I found blank index cards work well).

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• A Dream to some - Reality to others...
• A license is someone else's permission to do what you are already capable of doing.
• A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. But who can say that they know enough to be out of danger?
• A process can only be understood from within.
• A real friend isn't someone you use once and throw away.
  A real friend is someone you can use over and over again.
• A rose by any other Name is something else...
• A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
• A solution that causes other problems is like a slow poison sweet to the taste.
• All dreams carry within them the power to make them come true. You will have to work for it however.
• All the world is a stage -- and most people are desperately unrehearsed.
• All things considered, insanity may be the only reasonably alternative.
• All you need is a little theory and a lot of practice. It shouldn't take you very long.
• Always bow to the inevitable, and then you can continue to dance.
• An action can never be wasted, for it is the doing not the receiving that gives it its value.
• Another smooth escape described as a dramatic exit...
• Argue for your limitations and you get to keep them.
• Asking the same question will yield the same answer.
• Be the ball...
• Behind every goal there is a gaol.
• Coincidence is Fate's way of being subtle.
• Coincidence is made possible by our belief that things are unrelated.
• Courage is the price life extracts for granting peace.
• Death is the last frost of winter. Birth, the first bloom of spring.
• Do not fear the path you have chosen.
  You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future or a different past.
• Do not involve in the process what you do not want involved in the outcome.
• Do not take life too seriously - you'll never get out of it alive...
• Do not turn away from possible futures until you are sure that you have nothing further to learn from them.
• Do or Do Not. There is no try.
• Do you want the list or the summary?
• Don't be irresponsible. Just get out of control.
• Don't explain. If it was hard to do then it should be hard to understand.
• Don't worry about the problem with your name on it. Worry about the hundered marked "Occupant".
• Eschew Obfuscation
• Everything in this deck may be wrong.
• Everything that you know, all that you understand is real. Never doubt what you believe.
• Everything in your life exists because you have allowed it in.
• Experience is the best teacher, but the tuition is expensive.
• Faith Manages.
• Faith makes things possible, not easy.
• Fear is what enables us to believe in our own limitations.
• Fiction is that part of reality that we do not experience ourselves.
• For each thing there is its opposite. One cannot exist without the other.
• For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.
• Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
• Go ahead. It's usually easier to get forgiveness than permission.
• Guarantees are for people who are afraid to win.
• Healing the planet begins by healing the individual.
• History always repeats itself, but the price keeps going up.
• Hi! I can't remember your name either.
• How subtle does the hint need to be?
• If at first you don't succeed -- change the rules.
• If it were obvious, then why are you asking?
• If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance.
• If you choose to live in the past, then the only future you will ever have is the present.
• If you don't care where you are, then you cannot be lost.
• If you have already made up your mind, then you cannot be confused by the facts.
• If you truly want something, you must first abandon all which opposes it.
• In leaving a riddle unsolved, you risk needing that answer.
• In order to live freely and happily, you must first sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
• It is always better to have something worth living for, than something worth dying for.
• It is never that simple. Unless you want it to be.
• It is our dreams which shield us from the pain, our hopes which hold back the darkness, and our love which keeps us from faltering.
• It is pointless to build the bridge before you get to the chasm.
• It is safer to turn forward into the unknown, than to go backwards into death.
• It isn't what it isn't.
• It seemed like a good idea at the time.
• It's "Yet" now...
• It's a control issue. I won't let you understand.
• It's a deck of cards. Deal with it.
• It's not a bug. It's an undocumented feature.
• It's not a matter of saving time. It's a matter of how you spend it.
• It's not the years, it's the mileage...
• It's unpleasantly like being drunk...
• Just think: If you always go around with your eyes closed, you'll never have to look at anything ugly.
• Joy is in the ears that hear, not in the mouth that speaks.
• Lethargy in Motion
• Life isn't about getting somewhere. It's about going.
• Light a candle, curse the glare.
• Limiting your point of view limits your field of view.
• Looking at the deck is like looking at the future; you never know what's in it until to try it, and then of course it's too late.
• Love can only be the rose, offered with a smile.
• Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but will usually pick himself up and continue on anyway.
• Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness...
• Many of the Truths we cling to depend largely upon our own points of view.
• May you live in interesting times...
• Militant Agnostic: I don't know and you don't either!
• My commitment is to Truth, not consistency...
• Neither owner nor owned, keeper nor kept...
• Never check for a problem that you do not know how to solve.
• Never test the depth of the water with both feet.
• No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
• Not Fair? I wonder what your basis is for comparison.
• Not quite human any longer...
• Not quite yet...
• Nothing is impossible for anyone impervious to reason.
• Objectivity can be gained only by making your bias known.
• Once a creature has been formed into a pattern, it will usually choose to die rather than come into conflict with that pattern.
• Only in silence, the word. Only in darkness, the light. Only in dying, life.
• Perspective. Use it or lose it.
• Quidquid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
  [Translation: Whatever is said in Latin, seems profound.]
• Rarely do blessings and banes come unmixed.
• Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.
• Responsibility ends where suicide begins.
• Safety is not always found in Sanctuary.
• Safety is possible only when we let go of fear.
• Sometimes hatred is preferable to apathy.
• Sometimes, it is not a false alarm...
• Sometimes the Universe requires a change of perspective...
• Some things are more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
• Some things must be believed to be seen.
• Some things, one must do alone.
• Some things will continue to be impossible as long as those who are now possible remain possible.
• Strength is the measure of your ability to support separation.
• That is for the Fate to know, and you to decide.
• That which does not kill me, makes me smarter.
• That which Is does not need to be done.
• The Universe does not have laws, it has habits. And habits can be broken.
• The avalanche has begun. It is too late for pebbles to vote.
• The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but simply marks the last place where rival Shamans fought each other to a standstill.
• The end only justifies the means when nobody can determine how it was done.
• The fool fears what he does not understand, or cannot control.
• The future only matters when you plan on spending your life there.
• The higher that you fly, the further you are able to see.
• The Higher, the Fewer.
• The impossible only takes a little bit longer.
• The needs of the one outweigh at least some of them.
• The one who can destroy a thing, controls a thing.
• The only time is Now. The only place is Here.
• The past is only memories. The future only dreams.
• The Path exists first in the Mind, then in the Will, and finally in Reality.
• The power of one mind can change the Universe.
• The proof itself is left as an exercise for the reader.
• The Quest is the quest.
• The question and the answer are the same.
• The Ronin admits to no master save himself. Perhaps he is the most honest.
• The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.
• The Truth cannot affect those lies which we choose to cling to.
• The wise man does not choose, the Master cannot. He must be a Master of all things, or of none.
• The wise man, knowing his own Name, can thus see to name others.
• The world is your art book, the pages upon which you draw your life.
• Theory is a wonderful thing...
• There are some prices too high to pay...
• There are two fundamental questions: Who are you and What do you want?
  The order in which you answer these can either make you great... or destroy you.
• There can be only One.
• There is no problem so small that it cannot be blown out of proportion.
  And no problem so large that it cannot be run away from.
• There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands.
• There is nothing that is not a function of choice.
• Think of it as Evolution in action.
• This life is a test. It is only a test.
  Had this been an actual life, you would have received further instructions on where to go and what to do.
• Those who dance are thought mad by those who hear not the music.
• To be a victim, you must first deny you have given up your own power.
• To be able to destroy your enemy, you must become your enemy.
• To everything there is a cycle. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the wise man calls a butterfly.
• To hear, one has only to listen...
• To Know. To Dare. To Be Silent.
• To know something and to understand it are not the same. Sometimes, they are mutually exclusive.
• To thy known self be true. Then to thine own self be true.
• Today was the last day of your life so far...
• We teach best what we most need to learn.
• What color is a chameleon on a mirror?
• What we hold sacred is what defines us.
• When all else fails, destroy all evidence that you made the attempt.
• When evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.
• When people are free to do as they please, they will usually imitate each other.
• When sitting just sit. When standing just stand. Above all else, don't wobble.
• When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
• Wherever you go, there you are...
• Why are so many people surprised when they get what they ask for?
• Why spend effort protecting something that does not exist?
• Wisdom is found on the fringes, where there is room to grow.
• You are going to have to forge your own reality.
• You can live and learn, but not both at the same time.
• You can never know everything at the same time.
• You can't take it with you, but you can send it on ahead.
• You cannot start upon a new path until the one you are on comes to an end.
• You have your whole life to live before you die. Waste none of it.
• You must do what you do without expectation of results.
• You need not practice what you preach, if you are not the type of person you preach to.
• You shall know a tree by the fruit it bears.
• Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.