Philosophy Quotes

"There is no such thing as an accident, only a failure to recognize the hand of fate."

- Napoleon

"Our plans for the future descend from the past."

- Seneca

"The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life; the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician."

- William J. Mayo

"You can’t judge the ability of a doctor by the amount of praise the undertakers give him."

- Evan Esar

"Though fancy may be the patient’s complaint, necessity is often the doctor’s."

- Zimmermann

"The first thirty years of life give us the text: the next thirty years supply the commentary."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Age is a very high price to pay for maturity."

- Tom Stoppard

"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."

- William James

"Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one."

- Martin Heidegger

"A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode."

- Chanakya

"To be adult is to be alone."

- Jean Rostand

"A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven."

- Boethius

"In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief."

- John Barrymore

"Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone."

- Lord Byron

"To live alone is the fate of all great souls."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming."

- Emily Carr

"We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life."

- Tennessee Williams

"If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little."

- George Carlin

"He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything."

- Baltasar Gracian

"Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self."

- May Sarton

"Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man’s being alone. It has created the word ‘loneliness’ to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone."

- Paul Tillich

"Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better."

- Ingrid Bergman

"I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave."

- Hugh Hefner

"Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."

- Forrest Gump

"My mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."

- Forrest Gump (1994)

"Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast."

- King Kong (1933)

"At 30, you finally understand that life is not a race, but a journey to be savoured."

"Retirement is the time in your life when time is no longer money."

- Unknown

"Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!"