Philosophy Quotes

"If reality can destroy dreams, then dreams can destroy reality."

- Conway Stone

"Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet."

- Victor Hugo

"Dreams are the touchstones of our character."

- Henry David Thoreau

"The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality."

- James Michener

"The dream is not the destination but the journey."

- Diane Sawyer

"There is no love of life without despair of life."

- Albert Camus

"Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy—the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation."

- Eric Hoffer

"Disappointments are to the soul what the thunderstorm is to the air."

- Friedrich Schiller

"Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed."

- Patricia McCormick

"Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation."

- Eric Hoffer

"The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss."

- Rebecca Solnit

"From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate."

- Socrates

"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued."

- Socrates

"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean."

- Socrates

"Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind."

- Socrates

"Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live."

- Socrates

"By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."

- Socrates

"It is not living that matters, but living rightly."

- Socrates

"As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent."

- Socrates

"Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death."

- Socrates

"Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it."

- Socrates

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished - Through turtle eyes"

- Unknown

"Patience isn't just a virtue, it's the turtle's way of life"

- Unknown

"Wisely choosing paths that lead to the sea, much like life's journey"

- Unknown

"A turtle doesn't rush; it trusts the timing of life's tides"

- Unknown

"Turtles: the philosophers of the sea, pondering the deep"

- Unknown

"Time and tide wait for no one, but they always wait for turtles"

- Unknown

"Not all who wander slowly are lost"

- Unknown

"The art of life is a slow unfolding"

- Unknown

"Once cannot feel true disappointment until the very end, and even then, it is only another beginning."