Famous Philosophical Quote

Famous Philosophical Quote

I think therefore I am.
Descartes

The mind is a blank piece of paper.
John Locke

Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
Voltaire

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
Antoine de Saint Exupery

Happiness depends on ourselves.
Aristotle

There cannot be too much joy.
Spinoza

Someday we will harness the energies of love, and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
Teilard de Chardin

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Goethe

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao Tsu

Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy, or at least your thoughts should be noisy and colorful and lively.
Mel Brooks 1926-, American Actor, Director

Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton 1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet

One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
John Burroughs 1837-1921, American Naturalist.

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
Samuel Butler 1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist

Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates -- but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.
Lord Byron 1788-1824, British Poet

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
Albert Camus 1913-1960, French Existential Writer

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.
Elias Canetti 1905-, Austrian Novelist, Philosopher

Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.
Dale Carnegie 1888-1955, American Author, Trainer

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine 1894-1961, French Author

You can gain a friend in a year but lose a friend in a minute.
Unknown



We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan, and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Joseph Roux

That's a hard one because they change all the time. It's hard because people come and go, so it's tough to make good friends.Unknown

When a friendship is ending, if we could simply feel our feelings and move on, we would hurt less.BJ Gallagher