Ever feel stuck in a routine, like a hamster on a wheel? Maybe you've been blindsided by love or loss, left wondering what it all means. Let's admit, we've all been there.
Well, you're not alone! Great minds throughout history have grappled with the meaning of life, love, happiness, and the universe itself. In this article, we've gathered thought-provoking quotes that will spark your curiosity and challenge your perspective on everything!
Deep Philosophical Quotes
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
Aristotle
The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
Soren Kierkegaard
Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.
Mark Twain
You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
Gautam Buddha
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
Rabindranath Tagore
The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
Rabindranath Tagore
Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
Soren Kierkegaard
Where there is no hope, we must invent it.
Albert Camus
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
Voltaire
Famous Quotes by Philosophers
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Gautam Buddha
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Gandhi
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Plato
Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
Mark Twain
The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.
Oscar Wilde
What is done out of love is always beyond good and evil.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Religion is the opium of the masses.
Karl Marx
Philosophical Quotes About Life and Happiness
Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher; and philosophy begins in wonder.
Plato
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
Swami Vivekananda
Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.-
Mark Twain
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Bertrand Russell
Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.
Albert Camus
Life should be great rather than long.
BR Ambedkar
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
Simone De Beauvoir
A happy life consists in peace of mind.
Cícero
There is only one way to happiness: not to be concerned with things that are beyond our power.
Epicurus
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Soren Kierkegaard
An unexamined life is not worth living.
Plato
Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the further it flies. But if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and gently land on your shoulder. -Henry Thoreau
Freedom is the power to do what one wants.
John Stuart Mill
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard
The world is a book, and he who stays at home reads only one page.
Saint Augustine
The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius
What matters is living well, not living long; and often those who live well do not live long.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Expect much of yourself and little of others. Thus you will avoid many disappointments.
Confucius
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Hope for the best, but work for the worst.
Immanuel Kant
Know yourself and you will know the universe and the gods.
Socrates
I shall tell you a great secret, my dear friend. Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.
Albert Camus
Philosophical Quotes About Knowledge and Wisdom
The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.
Rabindranath Tagore
Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.
Swami Vivekananda
Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.
Plato
Be educated, be organized, and be agitated.
BR Ambedkar
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
I think, therefore I am.
Rene Descartes
It is not enough to gain wisdom, you have to use it.
Cicero
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
Socrates
I only know that I know nothing.
Socrates
The wise man never says everything he thinks, but always thinks everything he says.
Aristotle
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it to confess your ignorance.
Confucius
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
John Locke
All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.
Immanuel Kant
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
Noam Chomsky
Quotes About Philosophy
Idleness is the mother of philosophy.
Thomas Hobbes
Philosophy is not taught; teach yourself to philosophize.
Immanuel Kant
Making fun of philosophy is, in fact, philosophizing.
Blaise Pascal
Philosophy consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
Henry Adams
The philosophy I cultivate is neither so barbaric nor so inaccessible that it rejects passions; on the contrary, it is only in them that the sweetness and happiness of life reside.
René Descartes
The trick of philosophy is to start with something so simple that nobody thinks it's worth mentioning and end up with something so complex that nobody understands.
Bertrand Russell
Philosophy is the best remedy for the mind.
Cicero
Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know.
Bertrand Russell
Philosophy is what distinguishes us from savages and barbarians; nations are more civilized and cultured to the extent that their men philosophize better.
René Descartes
Philosophical Quotes That Will Make You Think
If you want to move the world, the first step is to move yourself.
Plato
He who thinks great thoughts often makes great mistakes.
Martin Heidegger
The superior man seeks what is in himself; the inferior man seeks what is in others.
Confucius
Hell is other people.
Jean-Paul Sartre
You cannot step twice into the same river.
Heraclitus
I do not seek to know the answers, I seek to understand the questions.
Confucius
And those who were seen dancing were judged insane by those who could not hear the music.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The laws of nature are merely the mathematical thoughts of God.
Euclid (Father of Geometry)
If you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophical Quotes About Love
Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.
Albert Camus
Love is an endless mystery because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.
Rabindranath Tagore
Where there is love there is life.
Gandhi
The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.
Plato
The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
BR Ambedkar
Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.
Franz Kafka
Love and work, work and love… that’s all there is.
Sigmund Freud
Short Philosophical Quotes
To lose patience is to lose the battle.
Gandhi
Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.
Swami Vivekananda
When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
Plato
Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle
Life is too short to be taken seriously.
Oscar Wilde
Tears are the silent language of grief.
Voltaire
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
Voltaire
Happiness is a direction, not a place.
Sydney J. Harris
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Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.
Mark Twain
The only person with whom you have to compare yourself is you in the past.
Sigmund Freud
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Bertrand Russell
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
Albert Schweitzer
