Philosopher Quotes

• To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Life, Trust

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.

  Karl Marx

  Change, Courage, Peace

  Theses on Feuerbach no. 11 (written 1845). This is the epitaph on Marx's tombstone in Highgate Cemetery, London.

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  Don't give to anyone the power to put you down. Haters are losers pretending to be winners.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Hater, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 04, 2011

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• The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

  Socrates

  Wise, Wisdom, Philosophy

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• While we are postponing, life speeds by.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

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• Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Buddhist

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• To heal our wounds, we need courage to face them.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Courage, Pain

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 29, 2011

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• Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Love, Fear, Philosophy

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1971). “Saint Thomas Aquinas”

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  If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

  Plato

  Government, Political, Politics

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• One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.

  Immanuel Kant

  Inspirational, Change, Wisdom

  Immanuel Kant (1996). “Kant: The Metaphysics of Morals”, p.23, Cambridge University Press

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• A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really..."Do the stars gaze back?" Now that's a question.

  Neil Gaiman

  Stars, Stardust, Star Gazing

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• Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Christmas

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• Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.

  Gautama Buddha

  Love, Happiness, Happy

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• Fear clogs; Faith liberates.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Faith, Freedom

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Simplify, simplify, simplify.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Wise, Philosophy

  Henry David Thoreau (1937). “The selected works of Thoreau”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• You are what you choose to be today. Not what you've chosen to be before.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Being Yourself

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.111, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

  George Santayana

  Love, Death, Poet

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.146, Courier Corporation

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• Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Wish, Frightened

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Problems of Philosophy”, p.24, Bertrand Russell

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• Life is too short to be wasted in finding answers. Enjoy the questions.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 25, 2012

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• If you chase two rabbits,
  you catch none.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Editors

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• Don't be someone that searches, finds and then runs away.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Running, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 03, 2014

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• To love someone is to acknowledge the goodness of who they are. Through loving a person we awaken their awareness of their own innate goodness. It is as though they cannot know how worthy they are until they look into the mirror of our love and see themselves.

  John Gray

  Love, Relationship, Appreciation

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• The first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man's first duty is to himself. His moral law is never to place his prime goal within the persons of others. His moral obligation is to do what he wishes, provided his wish does not depend primarily upon other men.

  Ayn Rand

  Independent, Men, Rights

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.76, Penguin

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• Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

  Ayn Rand

  Sacrifice, Self, Novelists

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.804, Penguin

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• I am. I think. I will.

  Ayn Rand

  Thinking, Novelists, Anthem

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.46, Xist Publishing

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