Philosophy Quotes
Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.
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"Our life is what our thoughts make it."Hannibal Barca
"External things are not the problem. It is your judgments about them."Hannibal Barca
"Material things cannot touch the true you."Hannibal Barca
"The unexamined life is not worth living."Hannibal Barca
"Ambition without virtue leads only to ruin."Julius Caesar
"Philosophy seeks answers to life's deepest questions."Julius Caesar
"The warrior who understands philosophy is twice formidable."William the Conqueror
"The folly of pride precedes the fall of empires."William the Conqueror
"Those who understand necessity understand power."William the Conqueror
"The weakness of tyranny is that it requires eternal force."William the Conqueror
"A throne built on sand will be washed away by the tide of time."William the Conqueror
"When you have outwitted all your enemies, the real enemy is yourself."Sun Tzu
"We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by drowning in our thoughts."William Sloane Coffin
"The only real lapse in a person's life is moral lapse."William Sloane Coffin
"The quality of your life is determined by the quality of the questions you ask."William Sloane Coffin
"Our struggle is the struggle of conscience."César Chávez
"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."Alexander the Great
"If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes."Alexander the Great
"After death, there is nothing."Alexander the Great
"To know oneself is the beginning of all wisdom."Julius Caesar
"Philosophy begins where certainty ends."Julius Caesar
"The universe does not care for your plans; you must care for the universe's possibilities."Genghis Khan
"The curse of great power is the knowledge that it is temporary."Genghis Khan
"The greatest conquest is not of the world, but of the understanding of one's place in it."Genghis Khan
"I learned that pride precedes not just a fall, but an empire's crumbling."Hannibal Barca
"The practice of power teaches you that all victories are temporary."Hannibal Barca
"The philosophy of command is that you are most needed when you are least wanted."Hannibal Barca
"We are shaped by the words we hear and the silences we endure."William Sloane Coffin
"Every person has infinite value simply because they exist."William Sloane Coffin
"The greatest poverty is the poverty of spirit."William Sloane Coffin