Explore One Of The Most Incredible 200 Powerful and Inspirational Famous Quotes By Philosophers
01) ”Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!” -Dr. Seuss
02) ”There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” -Elie Wiesel
03) ”The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” –
04) ”Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.” -Bertrand Russell
05) ”Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.” –
06) ”Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.” –
07) ”You do not write your life with words…You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.” -Patrick Ness
08) ”Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.” -Isaac Asimov
09) ”It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!” –
10) ”There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” -William Shakespear
11) ”We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.” -May Sarton
12) ”Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.” –
13) ”You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.” -Kahlil Gibran
14) ”Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.” –
15) ”A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.” -Gilles Deleuze
16) ”If you win, you need not have to explain, If you lose, you should not be there to explain!” -Adolf Hitler
17) ”Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.” -Plato
18) ”Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
19) ”It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
20) ”A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.” -William S. Burroughs
21) ”We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.” -Santosh Kalwar
22) ”Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.” -Lao Tsu
23) ”Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” -J.K. Rowling
24) ”Let’s think the unthinkable, let’s do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.” -Douglas Adams
25) ”Maybe everyone can live beyond what they’re capable of.” -Markus Zusak
25) ”The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” -George Bernard Shaw
26) ”The past has no power over the present moment.” –
27) ”Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.” -Douglas Adams
28) ”If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.” –
29) ”When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
30) ”We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.” -Richard Dawkins
31) ”It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way.” -Rollo May
32) ”The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.” -Mahatma Gandhi
33) ”If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, “He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.” -Epictetus
34) ”The first duty of a man is to think for himself.” -Jose Marti
35) ”Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.” -James Baldwin
36) ”The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.” -Freidrich Neitzsche
37) ”Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.” -Alan Wilson Watts
38) ”Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” -Socrates
39) ”The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” -Albert Einstein
40) ”Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” –
41) ”The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.” -Mark Twain
42) ”The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.” –
43) ”People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don’t know is what what they do does.” -Michel Foucault
44) ”Things do not change; we change.” -henry david thoreau
45) ”Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.” -Albert Camus
46) ”The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.” -Robertson Davies
47) ”It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters.” –
48) ”The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.” -Niccolò Machiavelli
49) ”The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.” – Lao Tzu
50) ”The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.” -Marcus Aurelius
51) ”One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” -Simone de Beauvoir
52) ”The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.” –
53) ”Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.” –
54) ”The real question of life after death isn’t whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.” –
55) ”If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.” -Søren Kierkegaard
56) ”The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure….you are above everything distressing.” –
57) ”Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We’ve been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
58) ”Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.” –
59) ”Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.” -Lao Tzu
60) ”Fair speech may hide a foul heart.” -J.R.R. Tolkien
61) ”The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.” -Leon Trotsky
62) ”Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.” -Socrates
63) ”Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.” –
64) ”The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what’s in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.” -Norton Juster
65) ”It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.” –
66) ”Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald
67) ”The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.” –
68) ”Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn’t quite as spectacular.” -Lisa Lutz
69) ”The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.” -Edith Södergran
70) ”The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.” -Carl Sagan
71) ”Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.” –
72) ”Perhaps not one religion contains all of the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth, and it is our responsibility to identify those fragments and piece them together.” –
73) ”Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.” –
74) ”Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever.” –
75) ”One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion” –
76) ”If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.” –
77) ”Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.” -Leo Tolstoy
78) ”To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.” -Henri Bergson
79) ”True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.” -François de La Rochefoucauld
80) ”Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.” -Oprah Winfrey
81) ”Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.” -Dale Carnegie
82) ”If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.” –
83) ”Words do not express thoughts very well; every thing immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom of one man seems nonsense to another.” -Siddhartha Gautama
84) ”When you realize there is something you don’t understand, then you’re generally on the right path to understanding all kinds of things.” -Jostein Gaarder
85) ”He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.” –
86) ”Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way” -Alan Wilson Watts
87) ”Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.” –
88) ”There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.” -Dante Alighieri
89) ”Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment’s torture.” -Ayn Rand
90) ”The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.” –
91) ”Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.” –
92) ”Life is not about living the safer option. Life is about living a life worth living.” -Robert Thier
93) ”If you don’t behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.” -Fulton J. Sheen
94) ”It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.” –
95) ”One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else.” –
96) ”Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.” -Stephen King
97) ”The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.” –
98) ”Everyone is the other and no one is himself.” -Martin Heidegger
99) ”To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.” -Alexandre Dumas
100) ”As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.” -Lao Tzu
101) ”There isnt always an explanation for everything.” -Ernest Hemingway
102) ”Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.” -Paulo Coelho
103) ”When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don’t take are snuffed out like candles, as if they’d never existed.” -Philip Pullman
104) ”No one should need to be big enough to destroy others and all of us must have to be powerful and resourceful enough to protect ourselves.” –
105) ”The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned.” -Antonio Gramsci
106) ”Philosophy is common sense with big words.” –
107) ”The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.” -David Mitchell
108) ”The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul.” –
109) ”I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don’t even need or want to look ‘intelligent’ anymore.” -Criss Jami
110) ”The moment you stop trying to become a better person, is the moment you start to become worse than what you already are.” –
111) ”All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
112) ”Choose to be happy. It is what we have all done.” –
113) ”Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.” –
114) ”The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.” -Frederic Bastiat
115) ”Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.” -erma bombeck
116) ”Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.” -Heraclitus
117) ”A prison becomes a home when you have the key.” -George Sterling
118) ”There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.” –
119) ”Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.” -Albert Camus
120) ”If you’ve got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn’t prove it.” -Robert A. Heinlein
121) ”He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.” -Confucius
122) ”All paths are present, always… and we can but choose among them.” -Jacqueline Carey
123) ”Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.” -Rebecca Solnit
124) ”You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.” -Joseph Campbell
125) ”Things always become obvious after the fact.” –
126) ”They can’t tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.” -Ken Kesey
127) ”People who fit don’t seek. The seekers are those that don’t fit.” –
128) ”To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there: I am too weak for such happiness.” –
129) ”The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy’s staying alive.” -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
130) ”The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.” -Guy Debord
131) ”Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.” -William James
132) ”But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.” -Immanuel Kant
133) ”I only know that I know nothing.” -Socrates
134) ”The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.” -Frank Herbert
135) ”To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.” -Suzanne Gordon
136) ”How small a thought it takes to fill a life.” -Ludwig Wittgenstein
137) ”In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” -Shunryu Suzuki
138) ”Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.” -Shannon L. Alder
139) ”To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.” -James P. Carse
140) ”Those who are wise won’t be busy, and those who are too busy can’t be wise.” -Lin Yutang
141) ”Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.” –
142) ”Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.” -Immanuel Kant
143) ”If an apology is followed by an excuse or a reason, it means they are going to commit same mistake again they just apologized for.” –
144) ”The only thing standing between you and your dreams is … reluctance.” –
145) ”Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.” -Phaedrus
146) ”Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.” -H. L. Mencken
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147) ”Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.” -Ann Brashares
148) ”You don’t have to choose between being scientific and being compassionate.” -Robert M. Sapolsky
149) ”What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did.” –
150) ”Nothing is as it seems, but something is everything it is made out to be.” -Carroll Bryant
151) ”Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic.” -John Rawls
152) ”One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
153) ”He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
154) ”All things fade and quickly turn to myth.”
155) ”Creating individuality, which creates and protects others’ individualities is good.” –
156) ”Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.” -La Rochefoucauld
157) ”Whole life is a search for beauty. But, when the beauty is found inside, the search ends and a beautiful journey begins.” -Harshit Walia
158) ”We are the sum of all people we have ever met; you change the tribe and the tribe changes you.” -Dirk Wittenborn
159) ”Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.” -Epicurus
160) ”What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.” -Marcus Aurelius
161) ”Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity.” –
162) ”Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.” -Leon Trotsky
163) ”Words are the clothes thoughts wear.” -Samuel Beckett
164) ”When you come to the edge of all that you know, you must believe one of two things: either there will be ground to stand on, or you will be given wings to fly.” -O.R. Melling
165) ”When God takes out the trash, don’t go digging back through it. Trust Him.” –
166) ”When you are lonely for a while don’t get restless, if you had born alone, you are going to die alone then for sometime you can certainly live alone.” -Amit Kalantri
167) ”Those who are without compassion cannot see what is seen with the eyes of compassion.” –
168) ”A birth-date is a reminder to celebrate the life as well as to update the life.” –
169) ”The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.” -Voltaire
170) ”Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings.” -Arthur Rubinstein
171) ”if you want it really, you get it.” -Ravinder Singh
172) ”The problem is not only with what’s right and wrong but the problem is with who decides about what’s right and wrong.” -Zaman Ali
173) ”Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.” -Baruch Spinoza
174) ”Intelligence is more important than strength, that is why earth is ruled by men and not by animals.” -Amit Kalantri
175) ”Live your life in such a way that you’ll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for good who had much respect for life, in general.” –
176) ”You spend your whole life looking for answers because you think the next answer will solve all your problems: make you a little less miserable, because when you run out of questions you don’t just run out of answers… you run out hope.” –
177) ”Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.” –
178) ”One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.” –
179) ”People will not remember what you did for living, they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving.” -Debasish Mridha M.D.
180) ”The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.” -Criss Jami
181) ”Everyone is trying to impress everyone else. Trying to make themselves out to be smarter or more confident than they actually are.” –
182) ”He who is more mindful of one, loses the love and the faith of both.” -Khalil Gibran
183) ”Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.” -Democritus
184) ”High thoughts must have high language.” -Aristophanes
185) ”Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.” -Jeremy Bentham
186) ”Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.” –
187) ”Change is not always growth, but growth is often rooted in change.” -R.A. Salvatore
188) ”If you wake up tired, you’ve been chasing dreams. If you go to bed tired, your making your dreams happen.” -Benny Bellamacina
189) ”When you are angry try your best to go to sleep, it keeps you away from speaking, writing and thinking while you are angry.” -Amit Kalantri
190) ”It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life.” -Patrick Stewart
191) ”Creation and destruction are the two ends of the same moment. And everything between the creation and the next destruction is the journey of life.” –
192) ”Every feeling is the perception of a truth.” -Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
193) ”Happiness will grow if you plant the seeds of love in the garden of hope with compassion and care.” –
194) ”It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up.” -Confucius
195) ”For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.” -Jasper Fforde
196) ”You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.” -Oscar Wilde
197) ”Creativity sparks originality, which then manifests itself into what we call evolution. To depreciate imagination is to depreciate life.” –
198) ”It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and perhaps become even more succesfull than ourselves.” -Slavoj Žižek
199) ”Who we are now is all that really matters.” -Amy Joy
200) ”You cannot connect with anyone except through reality.” -Stefan Molyneux
