Quotes about Philosophy
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
Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
— Marcus Aurelius
When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.
— Confucius
A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.
— Walt Whitman
The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
— Epicurus