Quotes about Philosophy
The silent treasuring up of knowledge; learning without satiety; and instructing others without being wearied: which one of these things belongs to me?
- Confucius
To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.
- Epictetus
With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?
- Henry David Thoreau
If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.
- Albert Einstein
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
- Walt Whitman
In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours beyond you.
- Emily Bronte
I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours beyond you. What were the use of my creation, if I were entirely contained here?
- Emily Bronte
It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance
- Epictetus
If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good.
- Epictetus
We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
- Epictetus
For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus