Philosopher Quotes - Page 5

• Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Philosophy, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 17, 2017

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• Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Philosophy, Feelings

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• Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.

  Epicurus

  Being Happy, Thankful, Hope

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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• America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less.

  Ayn Rand

  Rights, Usa, America

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.37, Penguin

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• Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.

  Laozi

  Motivational, Wisdom, Determination

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• Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to live.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 12, 2014

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• Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

  Plato

  Success, Failure, Men

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• Wisdom begins in wonder.

  Socrates

  Wise, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

  Paul Valery

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Stop waiting for others to change. Recognize that every person has the right to be whatever they choose-even if you irritate yourself about it.

  Wayne Dyer

  Change, Being Yourself, Acceptance

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• I do not seek the good of others as a sanction for my right to exist, nor do I recognize the good of others as a justification for their seizure of my property or their destruction of my life.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Rights, Novelists

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.78, Penguin

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• The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.

  Epicurus

  Life, Gratitude, Lying

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• I know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

  Ayn Rand

  Happiness, Being Happy, Philosophy

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

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• Death is nothing to fear. It is only another dimension.

  Wayne Dyer

  Death, Fear, Dying

  Dyer, Wayne (2005). “Everyday Wisdom”, p.57, Hay House, Inc

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• After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

  Aldous Huxley

  Motivational, Music, Wisdom

  Music at Night (1931) p. 17

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• If I seek to fulfill my own needs at the expense of my partner, we are sure to experience unhappiness, resentment, and conflict. The secret of forming a successful relationship is for both partners to win.

  John Gray

  Relationship, Marriage, Couple

  John Gray “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus”

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• The power of imagination makes us infinite.

  John Muir

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.321, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems to be no reason, then, to accept the normal level of human experience as fact and reject its other levels as mystical and emotional.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Religious, Acceptance, Emotional

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2000). “The religious thought in Islam”

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• Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

  Laozi

  Love, Wisdom, Passion

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• Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Wisdom, Nature

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• There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Good Man, Desire

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• What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Happiness, Sad

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• When the student is ready the teacher will appear.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Education, Wisdom

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• Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.

  Michel Foucault

  Death, Truth, Philosophy

  Michel Foucault (2012). “The Birth of the Clinic”, p.211, Routledge

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• Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

  Voltaire

  Love, Romantic, Valentines Day

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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