Philosophy Quotes

"I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments."

- Friedrich August von Hayek

"History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind."

- Edward Gibbon

"God cannot alter the past, though historians can."

- Samuel Butler

"It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition."

- Henry James

"Our greatest fear should not be of failure… but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter."

- Francis Chan

"People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past."

- Milan Kundera

"Everybody dies but not everybody lives."

- Drake

"Know life is just a game in which the cards are facing down. I’m in the world where things are taken, never given how long they choose to love you will never be your decision."

- Drake

"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit."

- Nelson Henderson

"After all, no designed planting ever lasts. Its main purpose is not to endure but to enchant."

- Thomas Rainer, Claudia West

"I learned working with the negatives could make for better pictures."

- Drake

"Everybody dies, but not everybody lives."

- Drake

"Sometimes it’s about going there, not getting there. Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination. And sometimes when you get there, you’ll look back and you’ll realize that you wish you could go there again because all the experiences are the reason that you are who you are today."

- Drake

"YOLO."

- Drake

"Life is just a game in which the cards are facing down."

- Drake

"Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals."

- Oscar Wilde

"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."

- Oscar Wilde

"When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers."

- Oscar Wilde

"The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast."

- Oscar Wilde

"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."

- Oscar Wilde

"Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity."

- Oscar Wilde

"One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be."

- Oscar Wilde

"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same."

- Oscar Wilde

"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."

- Oscar Wilde

"Life is never fair . . . And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not."

- Oscar Wilde

"When the Gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers."

- Oscar Wilde

"All art is quite useless."

- Oscar Wilde

"Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives."

- Oscar Wilde

"Men become old, but they never become good."

- Oscar Wilde

"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his."

- Oscar Wilde