Philosophy quotes

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

Keanu Reeves

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

William Shakespeare

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

George Bernard Shaw

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Henry David Thoreau

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

Khalil Gibran

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

Henry Adams

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

Bertrand Russell

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

You’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

Joe Biden

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

Blaise Pascal

You just have to have a simple faith.

Jimmy Carter

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

Dwayne Johnson

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

Blaise Pascal

Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

Henry Adams

Say not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘

Khalil Gibran

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There’s this lingering philosophy that movie stars shouldn’t do TV.

Dwayne Johnson

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Khalil Gibran

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To the dumb question, ‚Why me?‘ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‚Why not?‘

Christopher Hitchens

Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Samuel Johnson

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

Virginia Woolf

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

Baruch Spinoza

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

Blaise Pascal

Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?

Friedrich Nietzsche

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Samuel Johnson

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Khalil Gibran

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

Joseph Addison

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Bob Dylan

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Friedrich Nietzsche

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

Blaise Pascal

Freedom without limits is just a word.

Terry Pratchett

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Friedrich Nietzsche

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

Henry Kissinger

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Henry David Thoreau

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

Epicurus

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

Khalil Gibran

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

Terry Pratchett

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

Khalil Gibran

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Bob Dylan

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

Khalil Gibran

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Virginia Woolf

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Dalai Lama

I believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.

Mr. T

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

Blaise Pascal

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

George Eliot

Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.

Theodore Roosevelt

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

Khalil Gibran

The world itself is the will to power – and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power – and nothing else!

Friedrich Nietzsche

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

William Shakespeare

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

Pope Francis