Philosophy Quotes
If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
Ludwig WittgensteinLudwig Wittgenstein Self Love really is the only rule. All the other forms of love are just manifestations of it.
Dau VoireDau Voire Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.
Soren KierkegaardSoren Kierkegaard After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
Arthur SchopenhauerArthur Schopenhauer How can you thank a man for giving you what’s already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?
Malcolm XMalcolm X If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
Bertrand RussellBertrand Russell But this was a moral question, and the answer to it may not have been legally relevant.
Hannah ArendtHannah Arendt What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.
Marcus AureliusMarcus Aurelius I can believe things that are true and things that aren’t true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they’re true or not.
Neil GaimanNeil Gaiman All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
Bob DylanBob Dylan The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
Ram DassRam Dass There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
Soren KierkegaardSoren Kierkegaard There are essentially two questions in life – a spiritual question and a material question. The spiritual question is ‘Who am I?’ The material question is ‘What am I to do with my life?’ One leads to the other.
Rasheed OgunlaruRasheed Ogunlaru Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self.
Sharon SalzbergSharon Salzberg Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
Arthur SchopenhauerArthur Schopenhauer