Quotes about Philosophy
To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
— Oscar Wilde
Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
— Albert Camus
We must meditate on what brings happiness, since when it has, it has everything, and when he misses, we do everything to have it
— Epicurus
If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.
— Aristotle
Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.
— Euripides
I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.
— Albert Camus
For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world.
— Cicero
If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the true scope of all academical emulation.
— Thomas Jefferson
Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists.
— Peter Kreeft
...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky