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Philosophical Quotes

Philosophical Quotes

Philosophy quotes have a lot of wisdom to offer us. In this quote collection, we bring together the best philosophical quotes throughout the centuries. These philosophical quotes about life, love and the meaning of existence offer deep insights into this thing we called life.

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Last updated: June 24, 2020

19 Philosophical Quotes organized by Most Popular

“Happiness is not how many things you do, but how well you do them.”
— Brianna Wiest, Daily Routine
Tagged: Daily Routine, What Makes Us Happy?, Do A Good Job, Philosophical
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
— Plato, Plato: Complete Works
Tagged: Life, Darkness, Men, Light, Philosophical
“The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.”
— Martin Heidegger, What Is Called Thinking?(Harper Perennial Modern Thought)
Tagged: Thinking, Thought-Provoking, Philosophical
“All stories begun and enacted by men unfold their true meaning only when they have come to their end.”
— Hannah Arendt, On Revolution
Tagged: Storytelling, History, Understanding the Present, Words & Actions, Philosophical
“It is a familiar and significant saying that a problem well put is half-solved.”
— John Dewey, Logic- The Theory of Inquiry
Tagged: The Pattern of Inquiry, Epistemology, Questions, Profound, Philosophical, Ask The Question (And You're Close To The Answer)
“Freedom does not lie in discovering or being able to determine who we are, but in rebelling against those ways in which we are already defined, categorized, and classified.”
— John Rajchman, Michel Foucault: The Freedom of Philosophy
Tagged: Defining Freedom, Freedom, My Philosophy, Philosophical
“There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same.”
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes
Tagged: arguments, Deep, Philosophical, Two Types Of People Trope
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
— George Orwell, 1984
Tagged: destroying, Denying, History, destroying history, Philosophical
“This is because the outcomes of life are not governed by passion, they are governed by principle.”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: Consequences, Life, Profound, Philosophical
“The more we explain, the more we generate need for further explanation.”
— Walter Ong, Language as Hermeneutic: A Primer on the Word and Digitization
Tagged: Knowledge, The Never Ending Story, Forever Grasping, No End to Epistemology, Truth as Movement, Data Overload, Philosophical, The Way Things Rule , Deep
“I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions
Tagged: When Words Fail, My Philosophy, The Secret Of Our Secret States, Beyond Language, Transcendental, Philosophical, And Something Else
“Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?”
— Paul Gaugin, Title of his large painting
Tagged: Philosophical, Thoughts, realizations
“Those who serve best don't always understand.”
— Czeslaw Milosz, ASR Blog #7- Who Serves Best Doesn’t Always Understand - Hero's Journey Foundation
Tagged: Followers, Servant, Serving, We Don't Know What We Are Doing, Philosophical
“This world is just a speck of dust sitting on a much, much bigger world. There's no dominating it.”
— Bernard Lowe, Westworld, Season 2: Virtù e Fortuna
Tagged: Size of the Universe, Infinitely Big, We Are So Small, Our Place In Space, Makes You Think, Philosophical
“I cannot help you, because the questions are so difficult that it would run counter to the sense of this task of thinking to suddenly step out in public in order to preach and dispense moral censures.”
— Martin Heidegger, ditext.com
Tagged: Questioning Questions, Questions, The Task Of Thinking, Public vs. Private Thought, No Moralizing, Philosophical
“We had never stopped asking this question previously, and we already had the answer, which has not changed: philosophy is the art of forming, inventing, and fabricating concepts.”
— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, What Is Philosophy? (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
Tagged: Philosophy, My Philosophy, Constructivism, Philosophical
“I am, he thought, a part of all that I have touched and that has touched me, which, having for me no existence save that which I gave to it, became other than itself by being mixed with what I then was, and is now still otherwise, having fused with what I now am, which is itself a cumulation of what I have been becoming. Why here? Why there? Why now? Why then?”
— Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel
Tagged: Thought, Existence, Philosophical
“She is the only thing saving this story from being a very dull, stock revenge tale, viewed entirely from Ellie’s side.”
— Paul Tassi, In Defense Of Abby
Tagged: The Last Of Us Part Two, Philosophical Question, Moral Relativism, Revenge, Video Games
“We once believed ourselves to understand it, but are now in difficulty.”
— Plato, The Sophist
Tagged: The Clearing, Socrates Thesis, You Know Nothing, Philosophical