Memorable Philosophical Quotes

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"Happiness is not an end; it is a means to an end."
Aristotle
"He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened."
Lao Tzu
"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."
Marcus Aurelius
"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, honorable, and to be compassionate."
Vincent van Gogh
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
Edmund Burke
"To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive."
Robert Louis Stevenson
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"I would rather be a little nobody, then to be an evil somebody."
Abraham Lincoln
"I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become."
Carl Jung
"It is not enough to win; others must lose."
Gore Vidal
"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world."
Buddha
"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
Mahatma Gandhi
"The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be who we pretend to be."
Socrates
"There is nothing permanent except change."
Heraclitus
"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."
Jules Renard
"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, honorable, and to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Your life is your message to the world. Make sure it’s inspiring."
Lorrin L. Lee
"What we think, we become."
Buddha
"We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and a mystery."
H.G. Wells
"It is not length of life, but depth of life."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism."
Jean-Paul Sartre
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"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."
Buddha
"Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better."
Albert Camus
"The only way to deal with fear is to face it head on."
James Baldwin
"The heavy is the root of the light."
Lao Tzu
"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."
Indira Gandhi
"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."
Dalai Lama
"To be, or not to be, that is the question."
William Shakespeare
"Life must be lived as play."
Plato
"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
Aristotle
"The greatest wealth is to live content with little."
Plato
"You can’t blame gravity for falling in love."
Albert Einstein
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."
Dalai Lama
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
Albert Einstein
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"What is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away."
James 4:14
"You are what you believe."
Oprah Winfrey
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought."
Buddha
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."
Lao Tzu
"To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom."
Socrates
"A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes."
Mahatma Gandhi
"It is not the length of life, but depth of life."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure."
Jawaharlal Nehru
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
Nelson Mandela
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes."
William James
"To be is to be perceived."
George Berkeley
"Happiness is not an easy thing to define."
Michel de Montaigne
"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."
Jean-Paul Sartre
"We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are."
Anaïs Nin
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
Philip K. Dick
"Nothing is permanent except change."
Heraclitus
"It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace."
Aristotle
"Without music, life would be a mistake."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"The mind is everything. What you think, you become."
Buddha
"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."
Plutarch
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
Jimi Hendrix
"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language."
Ludwig Wittgenstein
"The only way to deal with the world is to accept it as it is."
Simone de Beauvoir
"An unexamined life is not worth living."
Socrates
"Man is the measure of all things."
Protagoras
"Philosophy is the highest music."
Plato
"To know what you can know and what you cannot know, that is the beginning of wisdom."
Immanuel Kant
"The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things."
Epictetus
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
Socrates
"I think, therefore I am."
René Descartes
"To be is to do."
Socrates
"To do is to be."
Immanuel Kant
"Do be do be do."
Frank Sinatra
"The only thing I know is that I know nothing."
Socrates
"Man is condemned to be free."
Jean-Paul Sartre
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
Søren Kierkegaard
"Happiness is the highest good."
Aristotle
"The mind is everything. What you think you become."
Buddha
"Knowledge is power."
Francis Bacon
"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."
Albert Einstein
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude."
William James
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
Aristotle
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
Socrates
"He who thinks great thoughts, often makes great errors."
Martin Heidegger
"Reason is the slave of the passions."
David Hume
"The only limits to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Philosophy is the science which considers truth."
Aristotle
"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts."
Aristotle
"The biggest risk is not taking any risk."
Mark Zuckerberg
"What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."
Christopher Hitchens
"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."
Confucius
"The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be."
Socrates
"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow."
Lao Tzu
"The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing."
Voltaire
"Those who believe they are entirely self-sufficient will ultimately be successful."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence."
Aristotle
"The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence."
Carl Sagan
"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance."
Socrates
"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
Marcus Aurelius
"Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward."
Søren Kierkegaard
"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."
Ludwig Wittgenstein
"One cannot step twice in the same river."
Heraclitus
"The world is my idea."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational."
G.W.F. Hegel
"To be is to do - that is the question."
Jean-Paul Sartre
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
William Shakespeare
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
Edgar Allan Poe
"I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing."
Socrates
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
Aristotle
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