Philosophy Quotes
We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.
Thomas AquinasThomas Aquinas Nobody knows you. You don’t know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?
D. H. LawrenceD. H. Lawrence People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon All your questions can be answered if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.
Neil GaimanNeil Gaiman When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
John SteinbeckJohn Steinbeck There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
AeschylusAeschylus I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.
Fulton J. SheenFulton J. Sheen If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner, if I let it slip from my tongue, I am Its prisoner.
Arthur SchopenhauerArthur Schopenhauer Every choice we make contains the energy of either faith or fear, and the outcome of every decision reflects to some extent that faith or fear. This dynamic of choice guarantees that we cannot run away from ourselves or our decisions.
Caroline MyssCaroline Myss Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
EpicurusEpicurus For my part, I think that to a man of spirit there is no other aim and end of his labours except the labours themselves.
Alexander The GreatAlexander The Great The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
PlatoPlato