Philosophy Quotes
The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
VoltaireVoltaire Nothing is more usual than for philosophers to encroach upon the province of grammarians; and to engage in disputes of words, while they imagine that they are handling controversies of the deepest importance and concern
David HumeDavid Hume Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
John DonneJohn Donne Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.
Richard FeynmanRichard Feynman Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.
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 Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?
Andy WarholAndy Warhol All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
EpictetusEpictetus First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
Jean CocteauJean Cocteau Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre It seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.
Bertrand RussellBertrand Russell We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
Arthur SchopenhauerArthur Schopenhauer Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen The meaning of a word is its use in the language.
Ludwig WittgensteinLudwig Wittgenstein