50 Quotes Of Philosophy – Wisest Philosopher Quotes
Looking for the best quotes of philosophy? These 50 epic quotes from philosophers demonstrate true wisdom.
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QUOTES OF PHILOSOPHY
1 – Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward. Søren Kierkegaard
2 – The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Epicurus
3 – Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of one’s desires, but by the removal of desire. Epictetus
4 – You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. Marcus Aurelius
5 – The only thing I know is that I know nothing. Socrates
6 – You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. Plato
7- Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something. Plato
8 – It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. Marcus Aurelius
9 – There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance. Socrates
10 – Don’t just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind.
They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents. Epictetus
QUOTES OF PHILOSOPHY
11 – The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates
12 – The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. Marcus Aurelius
13 – I think therefore I am. René Descartes
14 – I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage. Fredrich Nietzsche
15 – If you are depressed you are living in the past, if you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present. Lao Tzu
16 – A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it, is committing another mistake. Confucius
17- People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die. Plato
18 – The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don’t wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy. Thich Nhat Hanh
19 – One cannot step twice in the same river. Heraclitus
20 – That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless. Plato
QUOTES OF PHILOSOPHY
21 – The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. John-Jacques Rousseau
22 – To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do rather than what they say. René Descartes
23 – You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. Aristotle
24 – The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. Socrates
25 – Never form a friendship with a man who is not better than you. Confucius
26 -The energy of the mind is the essence of life. Aristotle
27- The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not. Seneca
28 – It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. Rene Descartes
29 – Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
30 – All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else. Plato
QUOTES OF PHILOSOPHY
31 – Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. Lao Tzu
32 – Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing. Lao Tzu
33 – If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. René Descartes
34 – I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature. Spinoza
35 – We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle
36 – Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know. Lao Tsu
37- Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. Confucius
38 – The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure….you are above everything distressing. Spinoza
39 – To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. Thomas Aquinas
40 – Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. Marcus Aurelius
QUOTES OF PHILOSOPHY
41 – To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his care; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not. Pharaoh Akhnaton
42 – A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Confucius
43 – Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination. Immanuel Kant
44 – The more you know, the more you know you don’t know. Aristotle
45 – Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don’t know. Bertrand Russell
46 – I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think Socrates
47- Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world.
Lao Tzu
48 – Man is a mystery. It needs to be unraveled, and if you spend your whole life unraveling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being. Fyodor Dostoevsky
49 – Without music, life would be a mistake. Friedrich Nietzsche
50 – What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational. G. W. F. Hegel
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