Philosophy Quotes
A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion,but determined to judge for himself.He should not be a respector of persons,but of things.Truth should be his primary object.
Michael FaradayMichael Faraday If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that human nature is good.
MenciusMencius Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
Irving BerlinIrving Berlin Although wisdom is built on life experiences, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing.
Sonia SotomayorSonia Sotomayor We can either chase love, or we become what we love.
Karla GaleanaKarla Galeana Never wait for tomorrow, what if tomorrow never comes?
Elvis PresleyElvis Presley You are — your life, and nothing else.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would grasp fly before them?
Henri BergsonHenri Bergson Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody – no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside.
Neil GaimanNeil Gaiman What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre