Philosophy Quotes

"Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart."

- Haruki Murakami

"Time will explain."

- Jane Austen

"Time is a dimension, like the dimensions of space."

- Stephen Hawking

"Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn."

- Delmore Schwartz

"Time isn't the main thing. It's the only thing."

- Miles Davis

"What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know."

- Saint Augustine

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages."

- William Shakespeare

"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once."

- Albert Einstein

"Time will pass and seasons will come and go."

- Roy Bean

"Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"All things are symbols: the external shows of nature have their image in the mind, as flowers and fruits and falling of the leaves."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The leaves fall patiently; nothing remembers or grieves. The river takes to the sea, the yellow drift of leaves."

- Sara Teasdale

"Old age and the passage of time teach all things."

- Sophocles

"I notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"There is October in every November and there is November in every December. All seasons melted in each other’s life."

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain."

- Epictetus

"Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism."

- Criss Jami

"It is ironic that constructive thinkers are often misunderstood as negative, as they differ from those longing for positivity: constructive thinkers have been conditioned to find positive in negative rather than suffering from the negative in negative. Or as Paul the Apostle wrote, 'I have learned the secret to contentment in any and every circumstance.' He was right. Indeed the Lord is our strength, especially under the commandment to love one another. Otherwise we are nothing and easily thrown about by both our own and other people's mind control in a painful, mental, physical desperation to run from every thought, every thing, and every one not seeming so positive or immediately beneficial to us."

- Criss Jami

"Negative and pessimistic views of technology have always existed. I can just imagine some pessimistic Sumerian in 3500 B.C. screaming about the evils of the wheel."

- Gray Scott

"I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person."

- Dolly Parton

"It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed."

- Ram Dass

"A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy."

- Jean Baudrillard

"The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation."

- Michael Jackson

"This world we live in is the dance of the creator. Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye, but the dance lives on."

- Michael Jackson

"The world's thy ship and not thy home."

- Saint Therese of Lisieux

"Death departing from men receives the greatest praise for vanquishing them; but when he stays long with them, they blame him because he did not go sooner."

- Sophocles

"When beggars die, there are no comets seen; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes."

- William Shakespeare

"I am standing upon the seashore. A ship, at my side, spreads her white sails to the moving breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength. I stand and watch her until, at length, she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other. Then, someone at my side says, "There, she is gone." Gone where? Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in mast, hull and spar as she was when she left my side. And, she is just as able to bear her load of living freight to her destined port. Her diminished size is in me -- not in her. And, just at the moment when someone says, "There, she is gone," there are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices ready to take up the glad shout, "Here she comes!" And that is dying..."

- Henry van Dyke

""True beauty is eternal.""

"They don't think it be like it is but it do."