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