Philosophy Quotes

"Whatever may be their use in civilised societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action."

- Virginia Woolf

"Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?"

- Pablo Picasso

"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity, and you are the mirror."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Black and white are the colors of photography. To me, they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected."

- Robert Frank

""Non nobis solum nati sumus.(Not for ourselves alone are we born.)""

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

""Apart from the ballot box, philanthropy presents the one opportunity the individual has to express his meaningful choice over the direction in which our society will progress.""

- George G. Kirstein

""He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.""

- Confucius

"Cogito, ergo sum"

- René Descartes

"Ex nihilo nihil"

- Lucretius

"The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well."

- Pierre de Coubertin

"There is something in the Olympics, indefinable, springing from the soul, that must be preserved."

- Chris Brasher

"An unexamined life is not worth living."

- Socrates

"Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined."

- Toni Morrison

"What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning."

- Barbara de Angelis

"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being."

- Carl Jung

"For the secret of human existence lies not only in living but in knowing what to live for."

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

"A relationship, I think, is like a shark. It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark."

- Alvy Singer

"Love lasts about seven years. That’s how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves."

- Francoise Sagan

"The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."

- Voltaire

"The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head."

- William Osler

"Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will."

- Jawaharlal Nehru

"The simplicity of winter has a deep moral."

- John Burroughs

"The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love, and death."

- E.M. Forster

"So long as you have food in your mouth you have solved all questions for the time being."

- Franz Kafka

"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."

- Virginia Woolf

"The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back."

- John Madden

"The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought."

"While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary."

"Deus ex machina"

"Love is unconditional. Relationships are not."