Quotes about Philosophy
...in certain moods, no man can weigh this world without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance.
— Herman Melville
Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
— John Ortberg
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
— Khalil Gibran
If I can acquire money and also keep myself modest and faithful and magnanimous, point out the way, and I will acquire it.
— Epictetus
I'd like to live like a poor man - only with lots of money.
— Pablo Picasso
Did my infancy succeed another age of mine that dies before it? Was it that which I spent within my mother's womb?... And what before that life again, O God of my joy, was I anywhere or in any body?
— St. Augustine
The Gita is not only my Bible and my Koran, it is more than that, it is my mother.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The world we have created is a product of our thinking.
— Albert Einstein
The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are.
— Epictetus
Estragon: I can't go on like this. Vladimir: That's what you think.
— Samuel Beckett
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
— William Golding
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
— Carl Sagan