Philosophy Quotes

Mahatma Gandhi

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace..
The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hermann Hesse

It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.

Aberjhani

The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.

Simone De Beauvoir

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion

Albert Einstein

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe..
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!. Friedrich
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

George Carlin

I think I am, therefore, I am... I think.

Terry Pratchett

The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.. Terry Pratchett
The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.

Mo Willems

If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.

Dale Carnegie

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Graham Parke

I'm very polite by nature, even the voices in my head let each other finish their sentences.

Gilles Deleuze

If you're trapped in the dream of the Other, you're fucked.. Gilles Deleuze
If you're trapped in the dream of the Other, you're fucked.

Eckhart Tolle

The past has no power over the present moment.. Eckhart Tolle
The past has no power over the present moment.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life
Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.

Kurt Vonnegut

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said
Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.

Dalai Lama XIV

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

Wil Zeus

Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and
Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever.

Carl Sagan

The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the
The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.

Joseph Brodsky

Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between good and bad,
Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

Kurt Vonnegut

The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death..
The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.

Quentin R. Bufogle

If you're gonna burn a bridge behind you, make sure you've crossed it first.. Quentin R.
If you're gonna burn a bridge behind you, make sure you've crossed it first.

Jen Knox

Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people.

Confucius

No lake so still but it has its wave.
No circle so perfect but that it has its blur.
I would change things for you if I could; As I can't you must take them as they are.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.

Gilles Deleuze

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

Leo Tolstoy

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.

Frank Herbert

Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality.

Amit Ray

A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are
A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for.

Aristotle

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.. Aristotle
To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

M.D. Birmingham

The love of money is the root of all evil, therefore selfishness must be the seed.

Rabindranath Tagore

YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf,
I am the smaller one on its upper side,'
said the dewdrop to the lake.

Teri Hatcher

Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods.. Teri Hatcher
Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods.

Joseph Campbell

You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.

Oscar Wilde

You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you
You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

William Blake

A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.

Aberjhani

Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.

Alexandre Dumas

Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.

Wil Zeus

We never realize just how many other lives we can help when their paths cross our own.

Auguste Rodin

Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.

Thomas Nagel

Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.

Albert Camus

To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.. Albert Camus
To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.

Jonas Eriksson

Don't write to sell, write to tell.

Victoria Valentine

Life is a book. We fill the pages.

Ram Mohan

Expect nothing and accept everything. That is the only key to happiness.

Amit Kalantri

True leaders don't give consoling answers, they take constructive actions.. Amit Kalantri
True leaders don't give consoling answers, they take constructive actions.

Amit Kalantri

Inspiration gives you energy, courage puts you in action.. Amit Kalantri
Inspiration gives you energy, courage puts you in action.

Jourdane Erasquin

I miss you every minute of every day. If I could miss you more than that, I would.

Amit Kalantri

Capability can handle challenges, it doesn't accept charity.. Amit Kalantri
Capability can handle challenges, it doesn't accept charity.

Amit Kalantri

You don't need to wish harder, you need to work harder.. Amit Kalantri
You don't need to wish harder, you need to work harder.

Amit Kalantri

Your right actions might hurt someone, so if required apologize for your right actions, but don't
Your right actions might hurt someone, so if required apologize for your right actions, but don't stop taking right actions.

Amit Kalantri

Accept the ego of extraordinary people as they have achieved something but don't accept the ego
Accept the ego of extraordinary people as they have achieved something but don't accept the ego of ordinary people.

Amit Kalantri

If you are not good at speeches, be good at your actions.. Amit Kalantri
If you are not good at speeches, be good at your actions.

Amit Kalantri

Taking action is the best source of inspiration.. Amit Kalantri
Taking action is the best source of inspiration.

Amit Kalantri

Apart from the economic value, money does have high moral value.. Amit Kalantri
Apart from the economic value, money does have high moral value.

K.L. Toth

I have found that the less expectation you put on others, the more happiness you will
I have found that the less expectation you put on others, the more happiness you will find with them and yourself.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Truth that is naked is the most beautiful.

Dejan Stojanovic

Say No! Accept the burdens of revenge.. Dejan Stojanovic
Say No! Accept the burdens of revenge.

Kevin Awad

Don't work for something in Exchange, Work on something for a Change.

Soren Kierkegaard

Hope is a passion for the possible.

Rajendra Ojha

I am soul. You may wonder where I go after I leave this stage. Well, everybody who believe in the saying of religion and spiritual science do believe in other world. Other world like: Heaven ( Upper heaven , Middle heaven and Lower heaven) and Hell (Upper Hell , Middle Hell and Lower Hell) . Are these world present in other side of black hole? If black hole is like time machine it may be. Some theories do believe that if we succeed to travel through black hole we may reach to other universe or other world that are described in many spiritual sciences.... May be in future scientist may come with concrete scientific reason. But for now it is just another science friction and spiritual philosophy.

Elie Wiesel

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.

Milan Kundera

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.

Jess C. Scott

Last night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don’t think so though I’m not sure if I’d like to be and argh I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that, if you like a person, you like the person, not their genitals.

Richard P. Feynman

Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is.

Lao Tzu

We join spokes together in a wheel,
but it is the center hole
that makes the wagon move.

We shape clay into a pot,
but it is the emptiness inside
that holds whatever we want.

We hammer wood for a house,
but it is the inner space
that makes it livable.

We work with being,
but non-being is what we use.

Unknown Author

Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone one who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.

Amit Kalantri

I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep
I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect.

Benjamin Franklin Wade

Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.

Terry Johnson

Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?

Albert Einstein

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?

Isaac Asimov

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

Dr. Seuss

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

Douglas Adams

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.. Douglas Adams
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Mark Twain

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect
The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

George Lucas

No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.

Carl Sagan

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Masashi Kishimoto

When a man learns to love, he must bear the risk of hatred.

H.L. Mencken

Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.

George Carlin

No matter how you care to define it, I do not identify with the local group. Planet, species, race, nation, state, religion, party, union, club, association, neighborhood improvement committee; I have no interest in any of it. I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to.

Graham Parke

I'm looking into my past lives. I'm convinced some of them still owe me money.

Peter Kreeft

Cats don't need to be possessed; they're evil on their own.

Anne Frank

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Margaret Mead

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

May Sarton

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

Jonathan Swift

May you live every day of your life.

D.H. Lawrence

A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.

Lao Tzu

Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world.

Markus Zusak

Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.. Markus Zusak
Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.

George Bernard Shaw

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Garth Stein

He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.

Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.

Heinrich Heine

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged

Amit Ray

It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you
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,

Jacqueline Carey

All knowledge is worth having.. Jacqueline Carey
All knowledge is worth having.

Harper Lee

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

Jacqueline Carey

All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them.

Alice Bag

What a waste my life would be without all the beautiful mistakes I've made.

Judy Blume

That's not a bad word...hate and war are bad words, but fuck isn't.

Edgar Allan Poe

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger,
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Robert A. Heinlein

Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.

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