Quotes about Philosophy

What, then, is your own? The way you live your life.

Continually remind yourself that you are a mortal being, and someday will die.

Wisdom's seat is higher; she trains not the hands, but is mistress of our minds.

And then we'll be emulating Socrates,* once we're able to write hymns of praise in prison.

It is not the events but our viewpoint toward events that is the determining factor. We ought to be more concerned about removing wrong thoughts from the mind than removing tumors and abscesses from the body.

No, I cannot escape death, but at least I can escape the fear of it — or do I have to die moaning and groaning too?

If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good. CXXIII

And yet, while there is only the one thing we can care for and devote ourselves to, we choose instead to care about and attach ourselves to a score of others: to our bodies, to our property, to our family, friends and slaves. [15] And, being attached to many things, we are weighed down and dragged along with them.

well as the others, namely, the faculty of reason. Reason is unique among the faculties assigned

The very word 'disappears' implies that the universe is, so to speak, finite, and that it is possible to leave it. But no-o-othing" (he deliberately drew the word out) "can ever leave the universe. And nothing can enter it. Not a single speck of dust can appear or disappear. Matter is transformed into energy, and energy into matter

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.