Philosophy Quotes
Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.
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"There is more to life than the next success."Audrey Hepburn
"My philosophy is very simple - do what makes you feel alive."Audrey Hepburn
"Sometimes you tell a story over and over, changing it as you go, until you're not sure what the truth was anymore."James Dean
"Philosophy is the art of living well."Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
"Philosophy teaches us how to question everything."Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
"Philosophy helps us understand the meaning of life."Aung San Suu Kyi
"The Constitution is not a static document."Barack Obama
"What is it all but a trouble of ants on a dust heap, with the pomp of a sum total of religious fandango."Charlie Chaplin
"I have always been interested in the psychology of the human being."Charlie Chaplin
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Let us change the idea."John F. Kennedy
"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery."Audrey Hepburn
"My philosophy of life is that if we make up our minds what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose."Ronald Reagan
"You've got to be an idealist to be a realist."Ronald Reagan
"The philosophy behind the Fair Deal is, after all, the same philosophy that goes all the way back through the years."Harry Truman
"The human equation is more important than the horsepower equation."Harry Truman
"Our individual salvation depends on our collective salvation."Barack Obama
"The value of something is only what someone is willing to pay for it."Jacinda Ardern
"We should never lose sight of what matters most."Jacinda Ardern
"In philosophy, as in life, the simplest truth is often the most profound."Aung San Suu Kyi
"Philosophy teaches us how to think, not what to think."Harry Truman
"There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families."Margaret Thatcher
"Whatever is developing in the human heart is reflected in human experience."Margaret Thatcher
"The question we have to keep asking ourselves is: What kind of people are we? What do we want to become?"Margaret Thatcher
"A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself believing in the politics of his childhood ceases to be a liberal; he must instead profess socialism."Margaret Thatcher
"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on."John F. Kennedy
"I have always believed that ideas are far more important than any official position."John F. Kennedy
"There is no left and right, only up and down."Ronald Reagan
"Philosophy helps us ask the right questions, even if the answers are complex."Jacinda Ardern
"To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and convictions."Margaret Thatcher
"The study of philosophy teaches us how to live wisely."Angela Merkel