Your life can be difficult, so you need to be careful as you nourish your mind and soul. Daily inspiration can come from many places, these philosophy quotes from the world’s most famous philosophers will motivate you.
Best Philosophy Quotes
- “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.” ― Albert Einstein
- “A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.” ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” ―
- “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide” – Albert Camus
- “Without music, life would be a mistake.” ―
- “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.” ―
- “Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.” ―
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“A day without laughter is a day wasted.” ―
- “Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?” ―
- “This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities” – Bertrand Russell
- “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” ―
- “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” ―
- “May you live every day of your life.” ―
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“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.” ―
- “One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another” – René Descartes
- “One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.” ―
- “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?” ―
- “Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don’t know” – Bertrand Russell
- “It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!” ―
- “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” ―
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“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.” ―
- “Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck” – Immanuel Kant
- “A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” ―
- “Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.” ―
- “History is philosophy teaching by examples” – Thucydides
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“Leisure is the mother of philosophy” – Thomas Hobbes
- “For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.” ― Neil deGrasse Tyson
- “You do not write your life with words…You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.” ―
- “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.” ― - “Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.” ―
- “A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion” – Sir Francis Bacon
- “Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.” ―
- “Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!” ―
- “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” ―
- “Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.” ―
- “There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers” – William James
- “Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!” ―
- “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” ―
- “A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.” ―
