The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
Bruce LeeTo depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
Virginia WoolfThere is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
EpicurusBeing part of a community with a church at its centre and singin‘ hymns is a great thing to do.
Vivienne WestwoodPeople that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThose who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
Albert CamusThe ‚I think‘ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‚I breathe‘ which actually does accompany them.
William JamesSocialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston ChurchillThe good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
Thomas JeffersonIn fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.
HypatiaHumor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
Mark TwainThere is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
Maya AngelouA human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.
Carl JungWhat is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
Henry David ThoreauI’m fascinated by the fact that we can’t grasp anything about time.
Anthony HopkinsTemperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
AristotleEverything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMan is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.
Billy GrahamIf you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
Henry David ThoreauThe spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.
Oscar WildeThe great quest of life has always been to discover truth.
Joyce MeyerOur desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
Elbert HubbardThe universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.
Bertrand RussellRisk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.
Warren BuffettOf course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.
Dalai LamaSurely our job while we’re here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.
David HareThere are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
Friedrich NietzscheNever in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?
EpictetusThere are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
Mark TwainIf particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.
PlatoIt is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
William JamesExaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
Khalil GibranThe proper study of Mankind is Man.
Alexander PopeIn the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
Benjamin FranklinThe proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack LondonEverything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
Marcus AureliusYou never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
Harper LeeWe call first truths those we discover after all the others.
Albert CamusWhat can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
Immanuel KantI still think like a Marxist in many ways.
Christopher HitchensThe philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
Brian EnoJust as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.
Albert SchweitzerGod is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
Friedrich NietzscheScience has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Edgar Allan PoeHappiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Immanuel KantIt is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.
Abraham MaslowWe run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.
Blaise PascalI think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
Neil ArmstrongWisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
PlatoAnd what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
PlatoKnowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Carl JungHaving nothing, nothing can he lose.
William ShakespeareThere is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Friedrich NietzscheAll great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard ShawIn the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
Arthur SchopenhauerThought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
David HareWe usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIn whatever adulation you get, there’s truth and there’s not truth. And wherever they dog you, and they say it was horrible – there’s truth and there’s not truth. It’s human nature to like to read the adulation more.
Matthew McConaugheyI believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.
Mr. TThere is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe