Philosophy Quotes

"Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for."

- Maya Angelou

"All animals are equal but some are more equal than others."

- George Orwell

"Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function."

- Garrison Keillor

"In ancient times, cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this."

- Terry Pratchett

"In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect."

- Alice Walker

"A stream cannot rise larger than its source."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The truth is, I’ve never been a big believer in destiny. I worry that it encourages resignation in the down-and-out and complacency among the powerful."

- Barack Obama

"Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty."

- Edmund Burke

"Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'"

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth."

- Lao Tzu

"The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace."

- Chinua Achebe

"There is a kind of beauty in imperfection."

- Conrad Hall

"Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"Beauty is a short-lived tyranny."

- Socrates

"Beauty is a fragile gift."

- Ovid

"Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder."

- Aldous Huxley

"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them."

- David Hume

"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'"

- William Butler Yeats

"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."

- Leo Tolstoy

"Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments."

- Munshi Premchand

"I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose."

- Charlie Chaplin

"In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!"

- Homer

"Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime."

- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

"Beauty is not caused. It is."

- Emily Dickinson