Quotes about Philosophy
You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also... your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
— John Keats
A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself.
— Marcus Aurelius
Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others.
— Bill Wilson
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
— Confucius
The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.
— Viktor E. Frankl
Keep up the fires of thought, and all will go well.
— Henry David Thoreau
And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
— Albert Camus
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
— Aristotle
To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.
— Albert Einstein
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
— Epicurus