Quotes About Philosophy

There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophies

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

The bookish theoric.

Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.

Patch grief with proverbs; make misfortune drunk...

How oft when men are at the point of deathHave they been merry!

As the old hermit of Prague, that never saw pen and ink, very wittily said to a niece of King Gorboduc, "That, that is, is."

Would it not grieve a woman to be over-mastered with a piece of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl?

It goes much against my stomach. Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd?

Hang up philosophy!Unless philosophy can make a Juliet.

Had I but died an hour before this chanceI had liv'd a blessed time; for, from this instant,There's nothing serious in mortality,All is but toys; renown and grace is dead,The wine of life is drawn, and the mere leesIs left this vault to brag of.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me;For now hath time made me his numbering clock:My thoughts are minutes.

What! will the line stretch out to the crack of doom?

And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me; no, nor woman neither.

And then he drew a dial from his poke,And, looking on it with lack-luster eye,Says very wisely, "It is ten o'clock;Thus may we see," quoth he, "how the world wags."

How all occasions do inform against me,And spur my dull revenge! What is a man,If his chief good and market of his timeBe but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.Sure he that made us with such large discourse,Looking before and after, gave us notThat capability and godlike reasonTo fust in us unus'd.

Alas, poor Yorick I knew him Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy...

Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?

Things are neither good nor bad but thinking makes it so.

The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.

Take it easy, nothing matters in the end, what goes up must come down. If I'd known that at 20, I wouldn't have done anything!

There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation.

Life was...sad. And yet it was beautiful. The beauty was dimmed when the sadness welled up. And the beauty would be there again when the sadness went. So the beauty and the sadness belonged together somehow, though they were not the same at all.

On the temple to Athena at Athens was inscribed the epigram "All human things are a circle"—a sentiment echoed by Greco-Roman philosophers from Aristotle to Marcus Aurelius.