Quotes About Philosophy

Surely the shortest commencement address in history - and for me one of the most memorable - was that of Dr. Harold E. Hyde, President of New Hampshire's Plymouth State College. He reduced his message to the graduating class to these three ideals: 'Know yourself- Socrates. Control yourself- Cicero; Give yourself - Christ.'

We are not troubled by things, but by the opinion which we have of things.

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

Strange how few After all's said and done, the things that are Of moment.

The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.

Better a false belief than no belief at all.

All the fame I look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

One thing is certain and the rest is lies; The Flower that once has blown for ever dies.

He who lives without folly is not as wise as he thinks.

It's a grand thing to be able to take your money in your hand and to think no more of it when it slips away from you than you would a trout that would slip back into the stream.

Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth is unhappy, though he is master of the world.

Everybody should believe in something; I believe I'll have another drink.

Take therefore no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

To know what has to be done, then do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.

To do is to be.

To be is to do.

The way to do is to be.

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.

To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to possess a guiding principle. A belief of some kind. A bumper sticker, if you will.

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with a purpose.

What most counts is not to live, but to live aright.

An honest God is the noblest work of man.

Every conjecture we can form with regard to the works of God has as little probability as the conjectures of a child with regard to the works of a man.