Quotes about Philosophy

Forget everything else. Keep hold of this alone and remember it: Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is small - small as the corner of the earth in which we live it. Small as the greatest renown, passed from mouth to mouth by short-lived stick figures, ignorant alike of themselves and those long dead.

He who has a vehement desire for posthumous fame does not consider that every one of those who remember him will himself also die very soon.

No man can escape his destiny, the next inquiry being how he may best live the time that he has to live.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Whatever may befall you, it was preordained for you from everlasting.

Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.

Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man—yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.

Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live death is nigh at hand while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.

Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.

There is nothing so ridiculous but some philosopher has said it.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.