Quotes about Philosophy
The way you see life will largely determine what you get out of it.
- Zig Ziglar
I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?
- Epictetus
There may be no single thing that can teach us more about life than death.
- Arianna Huffington
Truthful words are not beautiful beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive persuasive words are not good.
- Lao Tzu
The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.
- Elias Canetti
Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.
- Aristotle
To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
- Oscar Wilde
Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
- Albert Camus
We must meditate on what brings happiness, since when it has, it has everything, and when he misses, we do everything to have it
- Epicurus
If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.
- Aristotle
Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.
- Euripides