🏺 Philosophy

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I would rather die having spoken after my manner, than speak in your manner and live.”

— Socrates

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”

— Plato

“Silence is the language of God; all else is poor translation.”

— Rumi

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”

— Lao Tzu

“No man is an island”

— John Donne

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”

— Aristotle

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

— Seneca

“We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.”

— Diogenes

“Know thyself.”

— Thales

“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.”

— Adam Smith

“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”

— Thomas Aquinas

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our freedom.”

— Viktor Frankl

“Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”

— Iris Murdoch

“The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.”

— Sydney J. Harris

“All of humanitys problems stem from mans inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”

— Blaise Pascal

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“The only way to be truly free is to accept your limitations.”

— Slavoj Zizek

“Ethics precedes ontology.”

— Emmanuel Levinas

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.”

— Karl Marx

“Change your life today. Do not gamble on the future, act now without delay.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Existence precedes essence.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”

— Albert Camus

“Life is short, and it's up to you to make it sweet.”

— Sarah Louise Delany

“When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. When the student is truly ready, the teacher will disappear.”

— Unknown

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent; it is the one most adaptable to change.”

— Charles Darwin

“The face of the other commands me.”

— Emmanuel Levinas

“A leader is best when people barely know he exists.”

— Lao Tzu

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

— Gilles Deleuze

“Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.”

— G.W.F. Hegel

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”

— Simone Weil

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”

— Alan Watts

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.”

— Heraclitus

“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”

— William James

“I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.”

— Woody Allen

“The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster”

— David Hume

“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”

— Socrates

“Things do not change; we change.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”

— Maimonides

“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”

— Hannah Arendt

“The real question of life after death is not whether it exists, but whether it is worth worrying about.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“It is much safer to be feared than loved, if one cannot be both.”

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

— George Santayana

“The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.”

— Avicenna

“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.”

— Leibniz

“Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.”

— Hannah Arendt

“To be is to be perceived.”

— George Berkeley

“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

— Marcus Aurelius