- “How small a thought it takes to fill a life.” ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “Dance like it hurts. Love like you need money. Work when people are watching. — Dogbert’s Motto” ― Scott Adams
- “When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays
- “Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as are the minor domestic ruminants into sheep and goats, but the separation of philosophers into sages and cranks seems to be more sensitive to frames of reference.” ― W.V.O. Quine
- “Do not trouble about those who practice philosophy, whether they are good or bad; but examine the thing itself well and carefully. And if philosophy appears a bad thing to you, turn every man from it, not only your sons; but if it appears to you such as I think it to be, take courage, pursue it, and practice it, as the saying is, ‘both you and your house.” ― Socrates
- “Nothing is inanimate; what is the rest is our interpretation.” ― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
- “How can the heart and mind work together? The mind wants logic and to travel in straight lines, while the heart wants to be free and travel upward in spirals to dizzying heights.” ― Gillian Duce, Demons and Dangers: Magic and Mayhem – Book 4
- Philosophy teaches us to act, not to speak. Seneca
- “Consciousness is a mystery that faces the mystery of potential and transforms it into actuality. We do that with every choice we make. Our choices determine the destiny of the world. By making a choice, you alter the structure of reality.” ― Jordan B. Peterson
- “Make everyday a positive dayMake it joyful and beautiful in everyway” ― Debasish Mridha
- To say that the time to study philosophy has not yet arrived or that it is past is like saying that the time for happiness is not yet at hand, or is no longer present. Epicurus
- “I wanted nothing more than her attention. Her thoughts filled with me. Her eyes lost in my image. I wanted her so badly I didn’t even realize I lost myself in the process. Now, when I look in the mirror, I only see her… where is me?” ― Hubert Martin
- “What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
- “The supply of matter in the universe was never more tightly packed than it is now, or more widely spread out. For nothing is ever added to it or subtracted from it. It follows that the movement of atoms today is no different from what it was in bygone ages and always will be. So the things that have regularly come into being will continue to come into being in the same manner; they will be and grow and flourish so far as each is allowed by the laws of nature.” ― Lucretius, On the Nature of Things
- “There is nothing more sacred than the spaces that provide nourishment.” ― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, The Magic of Nature: Meditations & Spells to Find Your Inner Voice
- “Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- “The sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence — even mental.” ― Jacques Maritain, An Introduction to Philosophy
- “Whether through charm, humour, or naughtiness, if you can make their eyes twinkle when they smile, you hold the key to a happy relationship.” ― Omar Cherif
- “Nobody can tell what is right and what is wrong; what is righteous and what is evil. Even if there is a god and I had his teachings right before me, I would think it through and decide if that was right or wrong myself.” ― Tsugumi Ohba, Death Note, Vol. 12: Finis
- “Every sign, linguistic or nonlinguistic, spoken or written (in the usual sense of this opposition), as a small or large unity, can be cited, put between quotation marks; thereby it can break with every given context, and engender infinitely new contexts in an absolutely nonsaturable fashion. This does not suppose that the mark is valid outside its context, but on the contrary that there are only contexts without any center of absolute anchoring. This citationality, duplication, or duplicity, this iterability of the mark is not an accident or anomaly, but is that (normal/abnormal) without which a mark could no longer even have a so-called “normal” functioning. What would a mark be that one could not cite? And whose origin could not be lost on the way?” ― Jacques Derrida, Margins of Philosophy
- “A man’s work is nothing but his slow trek to rediscover through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.” ― Albert Camus
- “Every moment of life wants to tell us something, but we do not want to hear what it has to say: when we are alone and quiet we are afraid that something will be whispered into our ear and hence we despise quiet and drug ourselves with sociability.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Writings from the Period of Unfashionable Observations
- “Es ist nicht genug, zu wissen, man muß auch anwenden; es ist nicht genug, zu wollen, man muß auch tun.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “For me, writing is immortality. It is wisdom. It is never-ending.” ― Al Stone
- “The question has often been asked; Is Buddhism a religion or a philosophy? It does not matter what you call it. Buddhism remains what it is whatever label you may put on it. The label is immaterial. Even the label ‘Buddhism’ which we give to the teachings of the Buddha is of little importance. The name one gives is inessential…. In the same way Truth needs no label: it is neither Buddhist, Christian, Hindu nor Moslem. It is not the monopoly of anybody. Sectarian labels are a hindrance to the independent understanding of Truth, and they produce harmful prejudices in men’s minds.” ― Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught
- “The bigger the victory, the bigger the battle. Still, be the light and a change agent for healing, restoration and transformation.” ― Germany Kent
- “Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn’t get you anywhere.” ― Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Journey to the End of the Night
- “This intriguing ‘somewhere else,’ where intelligence no longer matters and awareness melts away, commands us to cherish our remains of innocence — because of all the characteristics of human nature, the richest by far is passion for the perfectly useless.” ― Hans Silvester, Into the Wind: The Art of the Kite
- “Quotinism allows me to read photographs as one would read the newspaper.” ― Anthony T. Hincks
- “Hatred is a form of faith, distilled by passion to remove all rationality.” ― L.E. Modesitt Jr., The Elysium Commission