107 quotes
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
— John Milton
“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
“It is through wonder that people began to philosophize and they continue to do so”
— Aristotle
“Do not explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
— Epictetus
“Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forwards.”
— Søren Kierkegaard
“Nature does nothing in vain.”
— Baruch Spinoza
“Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.”
— John Stuart Mill
“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.”
“The human heart refuses to believe in a universe without a purpose.”
— Immanuel Kant
“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 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.”
— Plato
“Do not be deceived; character is fate.”
“We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.”
— Saint Augustine
“Leisure is the mother of philosophy.”
— Thomas Hobbes
“All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.”
— Thomas Browne
“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“Hope is a waking dream.”
“The only thing that is constant is change.”
“All is flux, nothing stays still.”
“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
“Justice means minding your own business and not meddling with other peoples concerns”
“Philosophy begins in wonder and remains rooted in wonder throughout all inquiry”
“Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.”
“Human behaviour flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.”
“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
“It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.”
“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.”
“Happiness depends upon ourselves more than upon external things.”
“All humans live towards death.”
— Hegel
“Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.”
— George Santayana
“Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.”
— David Hume
“Know thyself.”
— Thales of Miletus
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
— Socrates
“Every person is a philosopher.”
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
“He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”
— Seneca
“Everything is relative.”
— Einstein
“The foundations of justice are that no one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.”
“Philosophy begins in wonder.”
“There is no way to peace; peace is the way.”
— A.J. Muste
“He who is not impassioned by the Good is not able to know it.”
— Plotinus
“To be is to be perceived.”
— George Berkeley
“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
“It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.”
“I know myself”
“Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity”
— William of Ockham
“Heaven and earth and I are of the same root. The ten thousand things and I are of one substance.”
— Seng-chao
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
“Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them.”
“Everyone is a philosopher.”
— Karl Marx
“Philosophy is universal and without boundaries.”
— Karl Jaspers
“There is nothing permanent except change.”
“There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.”
“Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure.”
“Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.”
“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous, and each has its purpose.”
“A person who does not learn is an old man, and a person who learns is a foolish youth”
— Confucius
“Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold; happiness dwells in the soul.”
— Democritus
“The things that we love tell us what we are.”
— Thomas Aquinas
“Calamity is the test of integrity.”
— Samuel Richardson
“To understand everything is to forgive everything.”
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
“If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.”
— Epicurus
“Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.”
“The only thing I am certain of is that I know nothing.”
“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
“The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.”
“Know thyself and thou shalt know all the mysteries of the gods and of the universe.”
— Unknown
“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
— John Locke
“Nothing is ours except time.”
“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
“Where there is no property there is no injustice.”
“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
— Henri Bergson
“Time is the image of eternity.”
“Life and dreams are leaves of the same book. Reading them in order is living; browsing through them is dreaming.”
“Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods.”
“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
— William James
“The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.”
“Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.”
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
“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
“The soul never thinks without a mental image.”
“Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
“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
“The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder and children are the best at it”
— Jostein Gaarder
“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.”
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
“To think is to create.”
— Lao Tzu
“Philosophy is the highest music.”
“Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.”
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