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.

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

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

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

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

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

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

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

The past has no power over the present moment.

He that is jealous is not in love.

Hope is a waking dream.

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

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

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

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

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.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.

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