Quotes About Philosophy

The sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment.

Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

Great thoughts come from the heart.

Once in Persia reigned a king Who upon his signet ring Graved a maxim true and wise, Which if held before the eyes Gave him counsel at a glance Fit for every change and chance. Solemn words, and these are they: "Even this shall pass away."

Tomorrow! - Why, tomorrow I may be Myself with yesterday's sev'n thousand years.

Though life is made up of mere bubbles, 'Tis better than many aver, For while we've a whole lot of troubles, The most of them never occur.

When I religiously confess myself to myself, I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.

Some people see the cup as half empty. Some people see the cup as half full. I see the cup as too large.

The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.

Ascetic: one who makes a necessity of virtue.

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Man is both determined and self-determining.

Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.

The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.

I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.

We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

Words are the small change of thought.

Since the concepts people live by are derived only from perceptions and from language and since the perceptions are received and interpreted only in light of earlier concepts, man comes pretty close to living in a house that language built.

Often I am struck in amazement about a word: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of our language is but a part of the arbitrariness of our own world in general.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, "Of the world"; for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.

Everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds.

Rule No. i is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule No. 2 is, it's all small stuff.