Philosophy Quotes
Mahatma Gandhi
The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.
1685 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.
3739 Aberjhani
The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.
3830 Simone De Beauvoir
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion
1505 Albert Einstein
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
1489 Friedrich Nietzsche
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
4471 Terry Pratchett
The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.
2745 Mo Willems
If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.
3363 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.
3222 Graham Parke
I'm very polite by nature, even the voices in my head let each other finish their sentences.
2388 Gilles Deleuze
If you're trapped in the dream of the Other, you're fucked.
2305 Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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.
2825 Kurt Vonnegut
Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
3964 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.
3921 Ludwig Wittgenstein
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
2631 Wil Zeus
Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever.
2653 Carl Sagan
The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.
4435 Joseph Brodsky
Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse
4609 Kurt Vonnegut
The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.
1147 Quentin R. Bufogle
If you're gonna burn a bridge behind you, make sure you've crossed it first.
3107 Jen Knox
Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people.
1638 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.
2753 Ludwig Wittgenstein
We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.
4725 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.
3539 Neil DeGrasse Tyson
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.
1240 Leo Tolstoy
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.
1562 Frank Herbert
Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality.
4754 Amit Ray
A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for.
2496 Aristotle
To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
2110 M.D. Birmingham
The love of money is the root of all evil, therefore selfishness must be the seed.
2612 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.
4713 Teri Hatcher
Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods.
4556 Joseph Campbell
You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
2378 Oscar Wilde
You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
4196 William Blake
A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
3471 Aberjhani
Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.
1549 Alexandre Dumas
Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
4068 Wil Zeus
We never realize just how many other lives we can help when their paths cross our own.
2758 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.
3069 Thomas Nagel
Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.
1830 Albert Camus
To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.
1286 Ram Mohan
Expect nothing and accept everything. That is the only key to happiness.
3449 Amit Kalantri
True leaders don't give consoling answers, they take constructive actions.
1387 Amit Kalantri
Inspiration gives you energy, courage puts you in action.
2721 Jourdane Erasquin
I miss you every minute of every day. If I could miss you more than that, I would.
2980 Amit Kalantri
Capability can handle challenges, it doesn't accept charity.
1859 Amit Kalantri
You don't need to wish harder, you need to work harder.
4698 Amit Kalantri
Your right actions might hurt someone, so if required apologize for your right actions, but don't stop taking right actions.
3080 Amit Kalantri
Accept the ego of extraordinary people as they have achieved something but don't accept the ego of ordinary people.
4456 Amit Kalantri
If you are not good at speeches, be good at your actions.
1489 Amit Kalantri
Taking action is the best source of inspiration.
1448 Amit Kalantri
Apart from the economic value, money does have high moral value.
4564 K.L. Toth
I have found that the less expectation you put on others, the more happiness you will find with them and yourself.
2602 Kevin Awad
Don't work for something in Exchange, Work on something for a Change.
4136 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.
4523 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.
2626 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.
4541 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.
1417 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.
3071 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.
2685 Amit Kalantri
I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect.
4333 Terry Johnson
Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?
1500 Albert Einstein
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?
1177 Isaac Asimov
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.
3941 Dr. Seuss
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
3220 Mark Twain
The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
4495 George Lucas
No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.
1593 Carl Sagan
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.
2221 H.L. Mencken
Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.
1843 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.
2079 Graham Parke
I'm looking into my past lives. I'm convinced some of them still owe me money.
2496 Peter Kreeft
Cats don't need to be possessed; they're evil on their own.
3819 Anne Frank
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
4882 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.
4190 May Sarton
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
4860 D.H. Lawrence
A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
3430 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.
2560 Markus Zusak
Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.
3380 George Bernard Shaw
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.
4032 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.
3475 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.
4865 Heinrich Heine
We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged
3662 Amit Ray
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,
2654 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.
4714 Jacqueline Carey
All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them.
2042 Alice Bag
What a waste my life would be without all the beautiful mistakes I've made.
4281 Judy Blume
That's not a bad word...hate and war are bad words, but fuck isn't.
3095 Edgar Allan Poe
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
2612 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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