“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”Create visual
Philosophy
Quotes about philosophy — ideas, advice and perspectives to get inspired.
731 quotes“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”Create visual
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”Create visual
“This is the best of all possible worlds.”Create visual
“Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.”Create visual
“He who understands the universe as a whole understands it as the best of all possible worlds.”Create visual
“A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”Create visual
“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”Create visual
“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?”Create visual
“Freedom is the recognition of necessity.”Create visual
“How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man?”Create visual
“Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.”Create visual
“In the long run, we are all dead.”Create visual
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.”Create visual
“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”Create visual
“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”Create visual
“I am rooted, but I flow.”Create visual
“To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.”Create visual
“The present is the only thing that has no end.”Create visual
“There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.”Create visual
“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.”Create visual
“Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.”Create visual
“Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.”Create visual
“The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”Create visual