Philosophy quotes

Welcome to our extensive collection of Philosophy quotes. Philosophy is the study of fundamental questions about existence, knowledge, values, reason, and more. It seeks to explore and understand the nature of reality, truth, morality, and the human experience. From ancient Greek philosophers like Socrates and Plato to modern thinkers like Friedrich Nietzsche and Albert Camus, the field of philosophy encompasses a wide range of ideas, theories, and perspectives.

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Anaximander
Anaximander
Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
Immortal and indestructible, surrounds all and directs all.
Hypatia
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician
Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.
The despairing soul is a rebel.
Life itself is a quotation.
Flora Thompson
Flora Thompson
Novelist
Some great poet or philosopher once said that " he who goes to nature for comfort must go to her empty handed " , and I think he was right.
Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits
E. B. White
E. B. White
Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved Classics
What do you mean less than nothing? I don't think there is any such thing as less than nothing. Nothing is absolutely the limit of nothingness. It's the lowest you can go. It's the end of the line. How can something be less than nothing? If there were something that was less than nothing, then nothing would not be nothing, it would be something - even though it's just a very little bit of something. But if nothing is nothing, then nothing has nothing that is less than it is.
Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David
Neoclassical Master & Political Artist
The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the canvas the sublime lessons of philosophy, are so many proofs that an artistic genius should have no other guide except the torch of reason.
D.T. Suzuki
D.T. Suzuki
Pioneer of Zen Buddhism in the West
Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?
Harvey Mackay
Harvey Mackay
Business Guru & Motivational Speaker
It's way easier to stay in the comfort zone, especially when things are going good than to go out on a limb and take some risks. My philosophy is exactly the opposite: Sometimes it's risky not to take a risk.
Timothy Leary
Timothy Leary
American psychologist and author
The most important thing you do in your life is to die.
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson
American actor, producer, retired professional wrestler and former American football and Canadian football player
My philosophy is, it’s always very rewarding when you can make an audience laugh. I don’t mind making fun of myself. I like self-deprecating comedy. But I’d like you to laugh with me occasionally, too.
Anaximander
Anaximander
Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
The Earth is cylindrical, three times as wide as it is deep, and only the upper part is inhabited. But this Earth is isolated in space, and the sky is a complete sphere in the center of which is located, unsupported, our cylinder, the Earth, situated at an equal distance from all the points of the sky.
There's no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems.
D.T. Suzuki
D.T. Suzuki
Pioneer of Zen Buddhism in the West
That's why I love philosophy: no one wins.
Timothy Leary
Timothy Leary
American psychologist and author
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. Science is all metaphor. In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show. If you don't like what you are doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove. If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
Death is just infinity closing in.
My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I’m not a sad man, and I don’t believe I sadden anyone else. In other words, the fact that I don’t put my philosophy into practice saves me from its evil spell, or, rather, my faith in the human race is stronger then my intellectual analysis of it; there lies the fountain of youth in which my heart is continually bathing.
D.T. Suzuki
D.T. Suzuki
Pioneer of Zen Buddhism in the West
To Zen, time and eternity are one.
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I'm not a sad man, and I don't believe I sadden anyone else.
D.T. Suzuki
D.T. Suzuki
Pioneer of Zen Buddhism in the West
Zen Makes use, to a great extent, of poetical expressions; Zen is wedded to poetry.
No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
Time is the substance of which we are made
All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them.
There is no exercise of the intellect which is not, in the final analysis, useless. A philosophical doctrine begins as a plausible description of the universe; with the passage of the years it becomes a mere chapter if not a paragraph or a name in the history of philosophy.
I have used the philosophers' ideas for my own private literary purposes, but I don't think that I'm a thinker. I suppose that my thinking has been done for me by Berkeley, by Hume, by Schopenhauer, by Mauthner perhaps.
I have no personal system of philosophy. I never attempt to do that. I am merely a man of letters.
The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.