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âãPhilosophy is the highest music.ãâ
â Plato
âãThe affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.ãâ
â Milarepa
âãThere is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.ãâ
â William Shakespeare
âãLife is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived.ãâ
â Gabriel Marcel
âãThe world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religionãâ
â Thomas Paine
âãAll of humanitys problems stem from mans inability to sit quietly in a room alone.ãâ
â Blaise Pascal
âãIn the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.ãâ
â Sun Tzu
âãThe knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.ãâ
â Avicenna
âãThe only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way.ãâ
â John Stuart Mill
âãTo be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world.ãâ
â Martha Nussbaum
âãIn the beginning was the Wordãâ
â John 1:1
âãThe sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.ãâ
â Hannah Arendt
âãNot what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance.ãâ
â Epicurus
âãI dreamed I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither. Then I awoke. Now I wonder: am I a man who dreamed of being a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming of being a man?ãâ
â Chuang Tzu
âãI would rather die having spoken after my manner, than speak in your manner and live.ãâ
â Socrates
âãI know that I know nothing.ãâ
âãWhat worries you, masters you.ãâ
â John Locke
âãScience is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.ãâ
â Immanuel Kant
âãThe test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.ãâ
â Dietrich Bonhoeffer
âãThe face of the other commands me.ãâ
â Emmanuel Levinas
âãThe wound is the place where the Light enters you.ãâ
â Rumi
âãHappiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; happiness dwells in the soul.ãâ
â Democritus
âãThe time to relax is when you don't have time for it.ãâ
â Sydney J. Harris
âãIf God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.ãâ
â Voltaire
âãI would rather die having spoken in my manner, than speak in your manner and liveãâ
âãThe life of man (in a state of nature) is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.ãâ
â Thomas Hobbes
âãPeace is not an absence of war; it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence.ãâ
â Baruch Spinoza
âãThe art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.ãâ
â William James
âãWhoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.ãâ
â Friedrich Nietzsche
âãEmotions are not just the fuel that powers the psychological mechanism of a reasoning creature, they are parts of this creatures reasoning itself.ãâ
âãIgnorance leads to fear, fear leads to hatred, and hatred leads to conflict.ãâ
â Ibn Rushd
âãThe measure of a man is what he does with power.ãâ
âãPatience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.ãâ
â Jean-Jacques Rousseau
âãOne is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.ãâ
â Simone de Beauvoir
âãThat which does not kill us makes us stronger.ãâ
âãAttention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.ãâ
â Simone Weil
âãTo be human is to be driven by passion.ãâ
â Nietzsche
âãI can only answer the question what am I to do if I can answer the prior question of what story am I part of.ãâ
â Alasdair MacIntyre
âãWe are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.ãâ
â Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
âãI've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.ãâ
â Michael Jordan
âãBeauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.ãâ
â David Hume
âãThe good life is a process, not a state of being.ãâ
â Carl Rogers
âãThe only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.ãâ
âãCommon sense is not so common.ãâ
âãThe absurd does not liberate; it binds.ãâ
â Albert Camus
âãThe only thing that is constant is change.ãâ
â Heraclitus
âãAll sins are attempts to fill voids.ãâ
âãHe who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.ãâ
â Confucius
âãThe task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to tolerate insecurity.ãâ
â Erich Fromm
âãUnderstanding is always more than merely recreating someone elses meaning.ãâ
â Hans-Georg Gadamer
âãThose who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.ãâ
â George Santayana
âãThat man is wisest who realizes that his wisdom is worthless.ãâ
âãWhat matters is not whether a universe or a multiverse exists, but that ethical living remains possible.ãâ
â Derek Parfit
âãThe heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.ãâ
âãYou have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.ãâ
â Marcus Aurelius
âãThe task of the public sphere is to subject the powerful to critique.ãâ
â Jurgen Habermas
âãTo be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control.ãâ
âãEveryone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.ãâ
â Nicolo Machiavelli
âãThe world is divided into men who have wit and no religion, and men who have religion and no wit.ãâ
âãWe become full human agents capable of understanding ourselves through rich languages of expression.ãâ
â Charles Taylor
âãThe only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing.ãâ
âãHe who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.ãâ
âãJustice is what love looks like in public.ãâ
â Cornel West
âãLanguage is the house of being.ãâ
â Martin Heidegger
âãThe purpose of life is a life of purpose.ãâ
â Robert Byrne
âãMan is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.ãâ
âãIt 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.ãâ
â Adam Smith
âãTo have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.ãâ
â G.K. Chesterton
âãExperience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.ãâ
â Aldous Huxley
âãThe philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.ãâ
â Karl Marx
âãWhereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.ãâ
â Ludwig Wittgenstein
âãDifficulty is what wakes up the genius.ãâ
â Napoleon Bonaparte
âãThere is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.ãâ
â Thomas Aquinas
âãThe only real wisdom is knowing you know nothing.ãâ
âãThe art of living well and the art of dying well are one.ãâ
âãTo be great is to be misunderstood.ãâ
â Ralph Waldo Emerson
âãBetween stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our freedom.ãâ
â Viktor Frankl
âãA wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.ãâ
âãDare to know! Have the courage to use your own understanding.ãâ
âãYou are the universe experiencing itself.ãâ
â Alan Watts
âãThe soul that is within me no man can degrade.ãâ
â Frederick Douglass
âãWe live in an age of exhaustion and fatigue because we are always pushing ourselves.ãâ
â Byung-Chul Han
âãTo become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.ãâ
â Montesquieu
âãThe world is not what I think, but what I live through.ãâ
â Maurice Merleau-Ponty
âãArchitecture is frozen music.ãâ
â Schelling
âãThe world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.ãâ
â Bertrand de Jouvenel
âãIf the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, that will be enough.ãâ
â Meister Eckhart
âãPeople demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.ãâ
â Soren Kierkegaard
âãLove is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.ãâ
â Iris Murdoch
âãThe purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.ãâ
â Rainer Maria Rilke
âãFlow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.ãâ
â Zhuangzi
âãOne must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.ãâ
âãThere is nothing outside of the text.ãâ
â Jacques Derrida
âãWe are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think.ãâ
â Swami Vivekananda
âãJustice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought.ãâ
â John Rawls
âãThere is nothing permanent except change.ãâ
âãHe who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.ãâ
â Lao Tzu
âãMen are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them.ãâ
â Epictetus
âãNo man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.ãâ
âãWe are what our thoughts have made us.ãâ
âãOne must imagine Sisyphus happy.ãâ
âãDifficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.ãâ
â Seneca
âãThe life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oysterãâ
âãWe are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.ãâ
â Aristotle
â Will Durant
âãLeisure is the mother of philosophy.ãâ
âãA leader is best when people barely know he exists.ãâ
âãOur life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.ãâ
â Henry David Thoreau
âãThe most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.ãâ
âãTruth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.ãâ
â Richard Rorty
âãKnowledge itself is power.ãâ
â Francis Bacon
âãIgnorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence.ãâ
âãTo do two things at once is to do neither.ãâ
â Publilius Syrus
âãThe great man is he who does not lose his childs heart.ãâ
â Mencius
âãThe unexamined life is not worth living.ãâ
âãWhatever is, is.ãâ
â Parmenides
âãPower tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutelyãâ
â Lord Acton
âãThe limits of my language mean the limits of my world.ãâ
âãThere are no facts, only interpretations.ãâ
âãExistence precedes essence.ãâ
â Jean-Paul Sartre
âãReal knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance.ãâ
âãHistory repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.ãâ
âãI am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.ãâ
â Woody Allen
âãThe art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.ãâ
â Alfred North Whitehead
âãLife is like a camera. Just focus on whatâs important and capture the good times, develop from the negatives and if things donât work out, just take another shot.ãâ
â Ziad K. Abdelnour
âãWhen the student is ready, the teacher will appear. When the student is truly ready, the teacher will disappear.ãâ
â Unknown
âãMan is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.ãâ
âãTo will oneself free is also to will others free.ãâ
âãDevelopment is about transforming the lives of people, not just the economy.ãâ
â Amartya Sen
âãThere is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.ãâ
âãOne of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.ãâ
â Thomas More
âãThe life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.ãâ
âãI think, therefore I am.ãâ
â Rene Descartes
âãIt is not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.ãâ
âãDo not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.ãâ
âãThe fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap.ãâ
âãThe things that we love tell us what we are.ãâ
âãWhen the student is ready, the teacher will appear.ãâ
âãIt is much safer to be feared than loved, if one cannot be both.ãâ
â Niccolo Machiavelli
âãIt is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.ãâ
â Diogenes
âãThe most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.ãâ
âãLiberty for wolves is death to the lambs.ãâ
â Isaiah Berlin
âãLife must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forwards.ãâ
â SÞren Kierkegaard
âãBecause you are alive, everything is possible.ãâ
â Thich Nhat Hanh
âãAnxiety is the dizziness of freedom.ãâ
âãWise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.ãâ
âãLife is short, and it's up to you to make it sweet.ãâ
â Sarah Louise Delany
âãEmptiness wrongly grasped is like picking up a poisonous snake by the wrong end.ãâ
â Nagarjuna
âãThe symbol gives rise to thought.ãâ
â Paul Ricoeur
âãLearning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.ãâ
âãHappiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.ãâ
âãA concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason or it can be thrown through the window.ãâ
â Gilles Deleuze
âãWe suffer more in imagination than in reality.ãâ
âãWe are all fools in love.ãâ
â Jane Austen
âãMan is condemned to be free.ãâ
âãDo not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.ãâ
â Pythagoras
âãAct as if what you do makes a difference. It does.ãâ
âãMankind is made great or little by its own will.ãâ
â Friedrich Schiller
âãThe real question of life after death is not whether it exists, but whether it is worth worrying about.ãâ
â Yuval Noah Harari
âãNothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.ãâ
â G.W.F. Hegel
âãBeauty addresses itself chiefly to sight; but there is a beauty for the hearing too.ãâ
â Plotinus
âãIn the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.ãâ
âãThe meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.ãâ
â Pablo Picasso
âãYour children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of lifes longing for itself.ãâ
â Khalil Gibran
âãNo man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.ãâ
âãBeauty lies in the eye of the beholder.ãâ
âãThe fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the foolish are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.ãâ
â Bertrand Russell
âãWonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.ãâ
âãThe question is not who is going to let me; it is who is going to stop me.ãâ
â Ayn Rand
âãThe only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.ãâ
â Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
âãKnowledge is power.ãâ
âãThe soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.ãâ
âãNo one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.ãâ
âãThe ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.ãâ
â Jiddu Krishnamurti
âãKnowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.ãâ
â Al-Ghazali
âãArise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached.ãâ
âãJudge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.ãâ
âãSilence is the language of God; all else is poor translation.ãâ
âãAll real living is meeting.ãâ
â Martin Buber
âãThe soul that is without a fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere is to be nowhere.ãâ
â Michel de Montaigne
âãTo study the Buddha Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.ãâ
â Dogen
âãStrong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.ãâ
âãThe more you know, the more you realize you do not know.ãâ
âãThe most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.ãâ
â Thales
âãThe courage to be is the courage to accept oneself as accepted in spite of being unacceptable.ãâ
â Paul Tillich
âãThings do not change; we change.ãâ
âãThe world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.ãâ
â Augustine
âãThe best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.ãâ
âãTo understand everything is to forgive everything.ãâ
âãThe day will come when, after harnessing the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness the energies of love.ãâ
âãNothing is miserable unless you think it so.ãâ
â Boethius
âãPhilosophy is universal and without boundaries.ãâ
â Karl Jaspers
âãDoubt is the origin of wisdom.ãâ
âãDo unto others as you would have them do unto you.ãâ
â Bible, Luke 6:31
âãThe beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.ãâ
â Thomas Merton
âãThe three most harmful addictions are narcotics, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.ãâ
â Nassim Nicholas Taleb
âãHell is other people.ãâ
âãThe moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination.ãâ
â bell hooks
âãMusic is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.ãâ
â Leibniz
âãPrejudices are what fools use for reason.ãâ
âãWe can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.ãâ
âãWe have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.ãâ
â Zeno of Citium
âãTo be is to be perceived.ãâ
â George Berkeley
âãWe do not learn from experience. We learn from reflecting on experience.ãâ
â John Dewey
âãYou can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.ãâ
â Christopher Columbus
âãI am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.ãâ
âãThe mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.ãâ
âãThe greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.ãâ
âãIf you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.ãâ
â John Galsworthy
âãThe happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.ãâ
âãThe way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.ãâ
âãForgiveness is the key to action and freedom.ãâ
âãDwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.ãâ
âãLet your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.ãâ
â Rabindranath Tagore
âãEntities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.ãâ
â William of Ockham
âãIt is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.ãâ
âãThe highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.ãâ
âãIf you do not change direction, you may end up where you are headingãâ
âãDo not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.ãâ
âãCharacter is destiny.ãâ
âãWe are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.ãâ
âãOut of suffering have emerged the strongest souls.ãâ
âãWhatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.ãâ
âãFreedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.ãâ
âãIt is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent; it is the one most adaptable to change.ãâ
â Charles Darwin
âãHe who dares not offend cannot be honest.ãâ
âãWe have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.ãâ
âãEthics precedes ontology.ãâ
âãCogito, ergo sumãâ
â René Descartes
âãTalent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.ãâ
â Arthur Schopenhauer
âãTo one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.ãâ
âãI know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.ãâ
âãHappiness depends upon ourselves.ãâ
âãKnow thyself.ãâ
âãCalamity is the test of integrity.ãâ
â Samuel Richardson
âãNo mans knowledge here can go beyond his experience.ãâ
âãWe lose ourselves in what we read only to return to ourselves, transformed.ãâ
â Judith Butler
âãKnowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.ãâ
â Laozi
âãWhat does not kill us makes us stronger.ãâ
âãThe truth is rarely pure and never simple.ãâ
â Oscar Wilde
âãThe miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth.ãâ
âãGive a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.ãâ
â Maimonides
âãHe who dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose.ãâ
â Anne Bronte
âãThe only way to have a friend is to be one.ãâ
âãCompassion is the basis of morality.ãâ
âãKnowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.ãâ
âãThe only way to be truly free is to accept your limitations.ãâ
â Slavoj Zizek
âãTo know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.ãâ
âãI have nothing to declare except my genius.ãâ
âãThe soul is healed by being with children.ãâ
â Fyodor Dostoevsky
âãWhat doesn't kill us makes us stronger.ãâ
âãWe live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.ãâ
âãLuck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.ãâ
âãGive me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the worldãâ
â Archimedes
âãIt is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.ãâ
âãKnowledge without action is vanity, and action without knowledge is insanity.ãâ
âãLife has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life.ãâ
â Joseph Campbell
âãLiberty, Equality, Fraternity.ãâ
â French National Motto
âãTrue ignorance is not the absence of knowledge but the refusal to acquire it.ãâ
â Karl Popper
âãAn optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight.ãâ
â Albert Schweitzer
âãNo great thing is created suddenly.ãâ
âãWe are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.ãâ
â Saint Augustine
âãIf it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening without sacrificing anything of comparable importance, we ought to do it.ãâ
â Peter Singer
âãWhenever you are in doubt, it is best to act.ãâ
âãNo man is an islandãâ
â John Donne
âãAt the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.ãâ
âãThe amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius and vigor it contained.ãâ
âãWe suffer more often in imagination than in reality.ãâ
âãThe journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.ãâ
âãIf you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any momentãâ
âãDo not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.ãâ
â Gautama Buddha
âãThe opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by all is what we mean by the truth.ãâ
â Charles Sanders Peirce
âãThe only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.ãâ
âãIt is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.ãâ
âãAct that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.ãâ
âãGive a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.ãâ
âãLife can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.ãâ
âãWithout music, life would be a mistake.ãâ
âãThe mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.ãâ
â John Milton
âãThe greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.ãâ
âãWhere there is power, there is resistance.ãâ
â Michel Foucault
âãThe secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.ãâ
âãIf you want to be happy, be.ãâ
â Leo Tolstoy
âãNothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.ãâ
âãAct so that the effects of your action are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.ãâ
â Hans Jonas
âãHappiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.ãâ
âãIt is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.ãâ
â Eugene Ionesco
âãChange your life today. Do not gamble on the future, act now without delay.ãâ
âãThe whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.ãâ
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