Best Philosophical Quotes

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Hope is a waking dream.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

He that is jealous is not in love.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.

The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

Time passes irrevocably.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

I see I have made my self a slave to Philosophy.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.