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.

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

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

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

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Hope is a waking dream.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

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.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

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

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

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

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

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

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

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

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

To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but can not and feels isolated. Then come gestures, words, awkward explanations and material symbols for imponderable outbursts of feeling-and the soul despairs.

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

Every great man exhibits the talent of organization or construction, whether it be in a poem, a philosophical system, a policy, or a strategy. And without method there is no organization nor construction.

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

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

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

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