Browsing Topic 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.

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.

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

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

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.

He that is jealous is not in love.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

The past has no power over the present moment.

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

Hope is a waking dream.

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

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

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, Or of humanity itself, Till philosophers become kings in this world, Or till those we now call kings and rulers really And truly become philosophers.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

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

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

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

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

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

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

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

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

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

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