Philosophy Quotes

"I think you can make fun of anything except things people can't help. They can't help their race or their sex or their age, so you ridicule their pretension or their ego instead. You can ridicule ideas - ideas don't have feelings. You can ridicule an idea that someone holds without hurting them."

- Ricky Gervais

"In the end, only three things matter- how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully let go of things not meant for you."

- Buddha

"It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Unity is not equal to being, but is the unifying principle of being."

- Marsilio Ficino

"The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees."

- T.H. White

"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."

- Henry Louis Mencken

"All things are linked with one another, and this oneness is sacred; there is nothing that is not interconnected with everything else. For things are interdependent, and they combine to form this universal order. There is only one universe made up of all things, and one creator who pervades them; there is one substance and one law, namely, common reason in all thinking creatures, and all truth is one--if, as we believe, there is only one path of perfection for all beings who share the same mind."

- Marcus Aurelius

"The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder."

- Virginia Woolf

"Humor and laughter - not necessarily derogatory derision - are my pet tools. This may come from my general philosophy of never taking the world too seriously - for fear of dying of boredom."

- Marcel Duchamp

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."

- Albert Einstein

"Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter."

- Frederick W. Nietzche

"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable than risk being happy."

- Robert Newton Anthony

"The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool."

- George Santayana

"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."

- William Blake

"Suffering equals pain times resistance."

- Shinzen Young

"Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional."

- Buddhist Proverb

"What you resist, persists"

- Carl Jung

"Pain x Resistance = Suffering"

- Shinzen Young

"Water is fluid, soft and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong."

- Lao Tzu

"Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional."

- Buddhist Proverb

"It's not about getting over things, it's about making room for them. It’s about painting the picture with contrast."

- Brianna Wiest

"HEARTWORK Each day is born with a sunrise and ends in a sunset, the same way we open our eyes to see the light, and close them to hear the dark. You have no control over how your story begins or ends. But by now, you should know that all things have an ending. Every spark returns to darkness. Every sound returns to silence. And every flower returns to sleep with the earth. The journey of the sun and moon is predictable. But yours, is your ultimate ART."

- Suzy Kassem

"For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool."

- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival."

- C.S. Lewis

"What are men to rocks and mountains?"

- Jane Austen

"We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths."

"A man’s country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle."

"The only way to get over a death is by seeing it as a life completed, instead of a life interrupted."

"Life asked death, 'Why do people love me but hate you? ‘Death responded 'Because you are a beautiful lie and I am a painful truth."

- Unknown