Philosophy Quotes

"History is the lie commonly agreed upon."

- Voltaire

"All that glitters is not gold."

- William Shakespeare

"The simplest way out of the puzzle of time travel is to say that it can't be done. That's very likely the right answer. However, we don't know for sure."

- Sean M. Carroll

"I don't think there is a hidden purpose to the universe that you have to puzzle out."

- Robert Fulghum

"I have restaurants, bookshops... but it's not an empire, more... a puzzle. If it were an empire, all my restaurants would be the same."

- Alain Ducasse

"Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful tale-teller at the end of the book? It is something to do with being reduced to, and comforted by, playing by the rules."

- A. S. Byatt

"Written by the ancient Chinese philosopher of the same name, the 'Zhuangzi' is one long perplexing puzzle of a rambling collection of enigmatic short stories. It's a strange feeling to laugh at a joke written by someone in the 4th century B.C."

- Patrick Stump

"The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain."

- John F. Kennedy

"The body is only a garment. How many times you have changed your clothing in this life, yet because of this you would not say that you have changed."

- Peace Pilgrim

"The song is ended but the melody lingers on…"

- Irving Berlin

"There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,"

- Ecclesiastes 3:1-4

"Omnium rerum mors est extremum. Death is the end of all things."

- Cicero

"Cogito, ergo sum. (I think, therefore I am.)"

- René Descartes

"I was not. I was. I am no more. I don’t care."

- Epicurus

"Cogito, ergo sum."

- René Descartes

"Ars longa, vita brevis."

- Hippocrates

"Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss."

- Samuel Beckett

"Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate."

- Thomas Aquinas

"The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth."

- Chanakya

""A flower’s appeal is in its contradictions—so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect.""

- Terri Guillemets

""Flowers don’t tell, they show.""

- Stephanie Skeem

""Flowers whisper ‘Beauty!’ to the world, even as they fade, wilt, fall.""

- Dr. SunWolf

"Reductio ad absurdum"

"Dies irae."

"Sic vita est."

"Ordo ab chao."

"Ex nihilo nihil fit."

"The river of life flows on in boundless eternity."

"Now increments of time give way to timeless vast eternity."

"Mortal time piece broken, now eternity’s expanse."