Best 100 Philosophy Quotes
1. “Everyone is a genius.” – Albert Einstein
2. “Only the dead have seen the end of the war.” – Plato
3. “Life without experience and sufferings is not life.” – Socrates
4. “An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
5. “Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.” – Dalai Lama
6. “Don’t live your life through what-ifs, live it with I knows.” – Marco Zuniga
7. “It’s strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death.” – Jim Morrison
8. “Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.” – Heraclitus
9. “Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.” – Bruce Lee
10. “Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.” – Albert Einstein
11. “If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to.” – Lao Tzu
12. “We do not describe the world we see. We see the world we can describe.” – René Descartes
13. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi
14. “If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
15. “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” – Aristotle
16. “Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.” – Bertrand Russell
17. “Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes – I mean the universe.” – Galileo
18. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” — Aristotle
19. “A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it, is committing another mistake.” – Confucius
20. “The more man mediates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.” – Confucius
21. “When it is obvious that goals can’t be reached, don’t adjust the goals, but adjust the action steps.” – Confucius
22. “Happiness is the feeling that power increases — that resistance is being overcome.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
23. “To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do rather than what they say.” – René Descartes
24. “The one who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.”- Steve Jobs
25. “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” – Alan Watts
26. “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates
27. “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” — Aristotle
28. “No valid plans for the future can be made can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.” – Alan Watts
29. “The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.” – Socrates
30. “Give instructions only to those people who seek knowledge after they have discovered their ignorance.” – Confucius
31. “I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.” – John Stuart Mill
32. “A ‘no’ uttered from deepest conviction is better than a ‘yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.” — Mahatma Gandhi
33. “If you are depressed you are living in the past, if you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.” – Lao Tzu
34. “The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.” – Seneca
35. “Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.” – Henry David Thoreau
36. “If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.” ― Leo Tolstoy
“The frog in the pond knows little of the great ocean.” ― Zen Proverb
38. “Mysteries abound where most we seek for answers.” ― Ray Bradbury
39. “Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.” ― Socrates
40. “The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.” ― C.G. Jung
42. “Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.” ― Margaret Mitchell
43. “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” ― Lao Tzu
44. “I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.” ― Franz Kafka
45. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” ― Søren Kierkegaard
46. “Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
45. “Nobody built like you, you design yourself.” — Jay-Z
46. “Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.” ― William S. Burroughs
47. “Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.” ― William S. Burroughs
48. “When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.” — Leo Tolstoy
49. “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
50. “The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.” ― Anaïs Nin
51. “The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.” ― Ernest Hemingway
52. “Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.” — James Joyce
53. “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” ― Alan W. Watts
54. “If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.” ― Zen Proverb
55. “When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you.” ― Lao Tzu
56. “The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.” ― Isabel Allende
57. “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” ― Joseph Campbell
58. “It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.” ― Oscar Wilde
59. “Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.” ― Chuck Klosterman
60. “The more sand had escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.” — Niccolo Machiavelli
61. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” ― Lao Tzu
62. “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” ― Kahlil Gibran
63. “If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.” ― Jim Morrison
64. “Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin
65. “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality.” ― Lao Tzu
66. “What did you do as a child that made the hours pass like minutes? Herein lies the key to your earthly pursuits.” ― Carl Jung
67. “Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.” ― Richard P. Feynman
68. “You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise.” ― Michael Ende
69. “The wisest of all, in my opinion, is he who can, if only once a month, call himself a fool — a faculty unheard of nowadays.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky
70. “It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.” ― Gabriel Garcí¬a Márquez
71. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle
72. “Thinking. The talking of the soul with itself.” – Plato
73.“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius
74. “You could not step twice into the same river.” ― Heraclitus
75..“When anger arises, think of the consequences.” – Confucius
76. “Prejudices are what fools use for reason.” – Francois Voltaire
77. “The madness of love the greatest of heaven’s blessings.” – Plato
78. “If you hate a person, then you’re defeated by them.“ – Confucius
79. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Confucius
80. “The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.” – Aristotle
81. “I love those who yearn for the impossible.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
82. “Never form a friendship with a man who is not better than you.” – Confucius
83. “Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.” ― Hermann Hesse
84. “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we “It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop.” – Confuciuscan catch excellence.” — Vince Lombardi
85. “Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.” – Karl Marx
86. Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find.” ― Philip K. Dick
87. “Being vulnerable is a strength, not a weakness.” — Selena Gomez
88. “If they spit at you behind your back it means you’re ahead of them.” – Confucius
89. “Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence.” – Immanuel Kant
90. “It ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.” — Sylvester Stallone in Rocky Balboa
91. “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” – Aristotle
92. “I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.” ― Haruki Murakami
93. “Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.” – Soren Kierkegaard
94. “It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.” – René Descartes
95. “Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.” – Confucius
96. “Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.” ― Alan W. Watts
97. “The only journey is the one within.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
98. “Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be.” – Alan Watts
99. “Embrace the glorious mess that you are.” — Elizabeth Gilbert
100. “What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.” – Confucius