Philosophical Quotes

1598 Philosophical quotes by 584 unique authors

There is moderation in everything. — Horace
...and our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Everything flows and nothing stays. — Homer
Tis a cruelty to load a fallen man. — William Shakespeare
Time takes all and gives all — Giordano Bruno
If you suffer it is because of you, if you feel blissful it is because of you. Nobody else is responsible - only you and… — Rajneesh
When your consciousness is directed outward, mind and world arise. When it is directed inward, it realises its own Source and returns home into the… — Eckhart Tolle
Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
And right action is freedom From past and future also. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength — Laozi
A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who renounces himself, comes to himself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval. — Mark Twain
Justice without love is not justice. Love without justice is not love — Mother Teresa
People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are. — Meister Eckhart
The now wherein God made the world is as near this time as the now I am speaking in this moment, and the last day… — Meister Eckhart
God is nearer to me than I am to myself; He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do not know it. — Meister Eckhart
God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction. — Meister Eckhart
And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul... the Light Unchangeable... He that knows the Truth, knows what that Light is; and… — Saint Augustine
Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them. — Karl Kraus
The best way to hold on to something is to pay no attention to it. The things you love too much perish. You have to… — Dmitri Shostakovich
A microscopic phantom of the universe; this is all that we are able to be. — Henri Frederic Amiel
For only when I err do I get away from what I know and what I understand. If "truth" were what I can understand, it… — Clarice Lispector
When silence confronts us, the question to which there is no answer rings out in the silence. That ultimate "why," that great "why" is like… — Eugene Ionesco
It is the distance between us that creates language. — Robin Skelton

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