Philosophy Quotes

"Philosophy is asking the right questions about life."

"To perceive is to suffer."

"Good is that at which everything aims."

"We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole."

"Love is cruel."

"The strong survive. The weak perish."

"Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge."

"Philosophy begins in wonder and ends in understanding."

"The prison-house of the body keeps the soul in captivity until philosophy shall free her."

"The god of youth has hitherto been a wholly imaginary divinity."

"The unexamined life is not worth living in its depths."

"Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself."

"Words are like shadows and dreams among things."

"Being is more than becoming."

"The lover of wisdom must be a lover of truth above all else."

"My life has purpose and meaning."

"Timmy!"

"We should not pretend to study philosophy, but study it in reality."

"The wise person distinguishes between necessary and unnecessary desires."

"Virtue is its own reward, requiring no external validation."

"To understand others, one must first understand oneself."

"The study of philosophy is the study of life itself."

"Motion is impossible, for if something moves, it must move in a place; but a place itself does not move."

"If things are many, they must be both finite and infinite in number—which is impossible; therefore, all is one."

"We cannot trust our perception of motion; logic shows it to be impossible."

"The moving arrow is at rest; the runner is motionless; only thought moves freely."

"What appears to change is merely the constant rearrangement of the eternal."

"If the many exist, each must be distinct, yet distinction requires separation, and separation is impossible."

"To move is to be in a place where you were not; but being in a place is to be at rest."

"If you believe in motion, you must explain how infinity is traversed—you cannot."