107 quotes
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”
— Seneca
“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
— Henri Bergson
“He who is not impassioned by the Good is not able to know it.”
— Plotinus
“Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.”
— Aristotle
“The moth does not see the flame as fire; the fish does not feel the water as wet. So we do not notice the medium of our own lives.”
— Zhuangzi
“Life and dreams are leaves of the same book. Reading them in order is living; browsing through them is dreaming.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
“There is no way to peace; peace is the way.”
— A.J. Muste
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
“A person who does not learn is an old man, and a person who learns is a foolish youth”
— Confucius
“The things that we love tell us what we are.”
— Thomas Aquinas
“The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.”
— Søren Kierkegaard
“Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“Philosophy is universal and without boundaries.”
— Karl Jaspers
“To understand everything is to forgive everything.”
— Baruch Spinoza
“Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.”
— Plato
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
— Socrates
“Nothing is ours except time.”
“There is nothing permanent except change.”
— Heraclitus
“Know thyself and thou shalt know all the mysteries of the gods and of the universe.”
— Unknown
“Philosophy is the highest music.”
“The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.”
“Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them.”
— Epictetus
“Happiness depends upon ourselves more than upon external things.”
“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous, and each has its purpose.”
“Philosophy begins in wonder and remains rooted in wonder throughout all inquiry”
“There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.”
“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
— John Locke
“Last night I dreamt I was a butterfly, and now I do not know whether I am a man who dreamt he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he is a man.”
“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
“To be is to be perceived.”
— George Berkeley
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
“The only thing I am certain of is that I know nothing.”
“Where there is no property there is no injustice.”
“All is flux, nothing stays still.”
“Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: nobody knew the color of the darkness that enveloped them.”
— Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
“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 both infused with wonder”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Nature does nothing in vain.”
“To think is to create.”
— Lao Tzu
“Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.”
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
“The human heart refuses to believe in a universe without a purpose.”
— Immanuel Kant
“Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity”
— William of Ockham
“It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.”
“He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.”
“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.”
“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.”
“Hope is a waking dream.”
“Do not be deceived; character is fate.”
“It is through wonder that people began to philosophize and they continue to do so”
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”
“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.”
“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Calamity is the test of integrity.”
— Samuel Richardson
“The foundations of justice are that no one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.”
“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
“Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.”
— David Hume
“Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure.”
“I know myself”
“All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.”
— Thomas Browne
“Do not explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
“We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.”
— Saint Augustine
“Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.”
“Time is the image of eternity.”
“Justice means minding your own business and not meddling with other peoples concerns”
“Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.”
— John Stuart Mill
“Leisure is the mother of philosophy.”
— Thomas Hobbes
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
“Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods.”
“Heaven and earth and I are of the same root. The ten thousand things and I are of one substance.”
— Seng-chao
“The soul never thinks without a mental image.”
“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
— William James
“It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.”
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.”
“Human behaviour flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.”
“What is hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.”
— Lord Byron
“Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.”
— George Santayana
“Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forwards.”
“The only thing that is constant is change.”
“The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily.”
“The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder and children are the best at it”
— Jostein Gaarder
“Every person is a philosopher.”
“Philosophy begins in wonder.”
“Everything is relative.”
— Einstein
“Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold; happiness dwells in the soul.”
— Democritus
“If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.”
— Epicurus
“Know thyself.”
— Thales of Miletus
“Everyone is a philosopher.”
— Karl Marx
“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”
“All humans live towards death.”
— Hegel
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
— John Milton
“Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
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