Philosophy Quotes

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All men by nature desire knowledge. - Aristotle

Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it. - Ayn Rand

Life Philosophy Quotes

Life is change... Growth is optional... Choose wisely... - Karen Kaiser Clark

If you want to know your past - look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future - look into your present actions. - Buddhist Saying

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. - Helen Keller

Man can live his truth, his deepest truth, but cannot speak it. - Archibald MacLeish

Ideas without action are worthless. - Harvey Mackay

Moral Philosophy Quotes

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be either good or evil. - Hannah Arendt

What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? - Jesus

Worry less about defining right and wrong, and more about applying what you already know. - Steve

Political Philosophy Quotes

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. - Malcom X

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. - Samuel Johnson

Politics is more difficult than physics. - Albert Einstein

Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men, in any form. Ayn Rand

Spiritual Philosophy Quotes

The eye, with which I see God, sees me; my eye and God's eye is one eye, one seeing one realizing and one love - Meister Eckhard

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few. - Shunryu Suzuki

In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things. - Pablo Casals

God respects me when I work, but he loves me when I sing. - Rabidranath Tagore

In the world to come they will not ask me, 'why were you not Moses?' They will ask me, 'Why were you not Zusya. - Zusya of Hanipoli

If the only prayer you say in your whole life is 'thank you,' that would suffice. - Meister Eckhart

More Philosophy Quotes

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it. – Winston Churchill

It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. - Helen Keller

The wild geese do not intend to cast their reflection; the water has no mind to receive their image. - Zenrin poem

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are. - Max DePree

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