Quotes about Philosophy
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.
— Oprah Winfrey
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
— Oscar Wilde
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on
— Robert Frost
How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear.
— Marcus Aurelius
The gods sustain and guide all their works.
— Marcus Aurelius
Do you see what little is required of a man to live a well-tempered and god-fearing life? Obey these precepts, and the gods will ask nothing more.
— Marcus Aurelius
All you need are these: certainty of judgment in the present moment; action for the common good in the present moment; and an attitude of gratitude in the present moment for anything that comes your way.
— Marcus Aurelius
Be modest and simple in your deportment, and treat with indifference whatever lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race; obey God.
— Marcus Aurelius
Death and pain are not frightening, it's the fear of pain and death we need to fear. Which is why we praise the poet who wrote, 'Death is not fearful, but dying like a coward is.'
— Marcus Aurelius
Do as Socrates did, never replying to the question of where he was from with, 'I am Athenian,' or 'I am from Corinth,' but always, 'I am a citizen of the world.'
— Marcus Aurelius