“Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.” — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action. — Confucius Copy Share Image
“We can't escape history, anymore than we can recapture it." Master Kai” — Eleni Papanou Copy Share Image
“There is only one really serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Any political philosophy is perfect in a given moment...but moments are fleeting.” — Michele Poague Copy Share Image
“If the unexamined life was not worth living, was the unlived life worth examining?” — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagiani was philosophical. He… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
I have many times been praised for my lack of animosity towards the Germans. It's not a philosophical virtue. It's a habit… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
For Emily Dickinson every philosophical idea was a potential lover. Metaphysics is the realm of eternal seduction of the spirit by ideas. — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
“Philosophy without criticism is like hunting deer without a shotgun, so, if you want people to like you, avoid robust philosophical debate.” — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
I would say I had zero philosophical thoughts at that time. I was operating on a timed checklist that we've been trained… — Alan Bean Copy Share Image
I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It appears to me that in Ethics, as in all other philosophical studies, the difficulties and disagreements, of which history is full,… — George Moore Copy Share Image
“Maybe they were born of karma, their own or their parents', Zack thought; maybe the universe had a purpose for them, and… — Jackie Trippier Holt Copy Share Image
I should like to begin with a philosophical comment. I do not think that when one is speaking of hardships or benefits… — John James Cowperthwaite Copy Share Image
With Nietzsche, the black pirates' flag appears for the first time on the high sea of German knowledge. (He is) a different… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“Cesar is not a philosophical man. His life has been one long flight from reflection. At least he is clever enough not… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“In the vast spectrum of space-time’s coeternal continuum, I am but a glint of bundled energy held together by the translucent fiber… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
People say life is like a flower. They're wrong. Life is stronger than that. Sometimes life may feel like a flower, but… — Sarah McCray Copy Share Image
Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. — Socrates Copy Share Image
“There is much that is strange, but nothing that surpasses man in strangeness” — Sophocles Copy Share Image
The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it. — J Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
“... what you think is right isn't the same as knowing what is right.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Philosophy still moves too much straight ahead, and is not yet cyclical enough. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“Some people will hate you for pursuing what you love. Make sure you don't love them more.” — Harsh Snehanshu Copy Share Image
“Man is much more the victim of his psychic constitution than its inventor.” — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll put a lie for philosophical reasons, and sometimes to make the story shorter. — Todd Snider Copy Share Image
I still don't understand myself... But I'm wise enough to observe others. — Shashank Rayal Copy Share Image