Philosophy quotes

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Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Albert Schweitzer

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

Epictetus

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Plato

All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

Kurt Vonnegut

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

Socrates

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

Woody Allen

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

Carl Jung

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hermann Hesse

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

Immanuel Kant

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

Mark Twain

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

Neil Armstrong

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

Heraclitus

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

Douglas Adams

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.

Warren Buffett

Truth is a pathless land.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Man was made at the end of the week’s work, when God was tired.

Mark Twain

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.

Albert Schweitzer

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

Alan Watts

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

Aristotle

To live is to think.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.

Golda Meir

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Galileo Galilei

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

Albert Camus

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Aristotle

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

Aldous Huxley

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Albert Einstein

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

Brian Eno

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw’s plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

George Washington

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

Voltaire

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Immanuel Kant

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‚try to be a little kinder.‘

Aldous Huxley

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Alan Watts

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

Jean-Paul Sartre

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

Blaise Pascal

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Plato

Real living is living for others.

Bruce Lee

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

Albert Einstein

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

Plato

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Oscar Wilde

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Aristotle

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

Voltaire

The art is long, life is short.

Hippocrates

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Aldous Huxley

Information is not knowledge.

Albert Einstein

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

Henry David Thoreau

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Plato

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Voltaire

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Albert Camus

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Immanuel Kant

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

Aldous Huxley

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

John Steinbeck

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

Kurt Vonnegut

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Aristotle