Quotes About Philosophy

Whatever may befall you, it was preordained for you from everlasting.

Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late the good lived yesterday.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man—yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a little breath, and the part which governs.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Remember that no man loses other life than that which he lives, nor lives other than that which he loses.

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live death is nigh at hand while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.

Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!

Whatever happens it all happens as it should thou wilt find this true, if thou shouldst watch closely.

We have built a thousand temples to Fortune and not one to Reason.

You don't have any need for a creator. Quantum fluctuations mean that we are seeing something appearing from nothing all the time.

When somebody says to me, "I don't believe in God," my first response is, "Tell me about the God you don't believe in." Almost always, it's the God of supernatural theism.

Do not expect good from another's death.

But how do you teach a child to grasp that complexity? You teach them to grasp the style of thinking. There are no answers, only questions that shape your understanding, and which in turn reveal more questions.

He hadn't really known them, and like most people, he was just solipsistic enough to not truly believe they existed when he wasn't there. We're all background characters in someone else's movie. Maybe

It was like that old riddle about replacing the handle of an axe, and later the head—when you were done, was it a new axe or the old one?

Existence was a chain. Life at one end, vibrant and powerful; nothingness at the other.