Philosophy Quotes

"The greatest felicities of the prosperous are the most terrible disasters for those whom they subdue."

"Slow movements of the stars inspire great thoughts."

"Vain is the word of a philosopher which does not heal any suffering."

"The philosophy that promises happiness must deliver peace of mind."

"The pursuit of endless pleasure is endless folly."

"To find yourself, think for yourself."

"When the mind is thinking, it is talking to itself."

"The soul is dyed by its thoughts."

"The fundamental cause of trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."

"This and that philosopher, as the whim takes him."

"Absolute virtue is impossible; relative virtue is all we can know and live by."

"What we believe shapes the reality we experience."

"The questions we ask shape the lives we live."

"Villainy and heroism are born in the same soil."

"Arrogance has been the downfall of many great beings."

"Bitterness is a poison that corrodes the spirit."

"In each being dwells both shadow and light."

"My life proves that limitations are often illusions."

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

"An unexamined life is not worth living."

"I am of a province called Attica and a city called Athens."

"Philosophy is not a theory but a way of life."

"The unexamined life does not deserve to be lived."

"The goal of the soul is the highest good and is achieved through virtue."

"The desire to understand the world is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy."

"I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law."

"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire."

"The prison-house is the world."

"When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself."

"The prison-house is the world, and the world is the prison-house."