Quotes on philosophy

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”

Albert Einstein

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”

Mahatma Gandhi

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. ”

William S. Burroughs

“Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;Man got to tell himself he understand.”

Kurt Vonnegut

“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”

Plato

“Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”

Ludwig van Beethoven

“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”

Daniel Keyes

“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”

Gilles Deleuze

“The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.”

Mark Twain

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”

Confucius

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”

Oscar Wilde

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”

Lewis Carroll

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

Margaret Mead

“May you live every day of your life.”

Jonathan Swift

“It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,”

Amit Ray

“Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”

Dylan Thomas

“To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.”

Aristotle

“Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.”

Leo Tolstoy

“I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect.”

Amit Kalantri

“Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift. ”

Maya Angelou

“Death twitches my ear;'Live,' he says... 'I'm coming.”

Virgil

“The treacherous are ever distrustful.”

J.R.R. Tolkien

“There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind.”

Kurt Vonnegut

“Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.”

Robert A. Heinlein

“He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.”

Confucius

“Imagine others complexly.”

John Green

“A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.”

Amit Kalantri

“Some want to live within the soundOf church or chapel bell;I want to run a rescue shop,Within a yard of hell.”

C.T. Studd

“Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.”

Germany Kent

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”

Elie Wiesel

“He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”

Milan Kundera

“If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.”

Slavoj Žižek

“Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.”

Aberjhani

“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

“The past has no power over the present moment.”

Eckhart Tolle

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

George Bernard Shaw

“We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged”

Heinrich Heine

“Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.”

Kurt Vonnegut

“Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”

Harper Lee

“The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely.”

John Green

“Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever.”

Wil Zeus

“What a waste my life would be without all the beautiful mistakes I've made.”

Alice Bag

“Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits.”

Cindy Ross

“All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them.”

Jacqueline Carey

“Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.”

Edgar Allan Poe

“The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.”

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“People who fit don’t seek. The seekers are those that don’t fit.”

Shannon L. Alder

“What can a soldier do when mercy is treason, and he is alone in it?”

Laini Taylor

“But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.”

Immanuel Kant
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