Philosophy Quotes

"Nature play is not another thing to shove into the crevices of an already overloaded schedule. A childhood built upon nature play is a different way to do childhood altogether."

- Ginny Yurich

"Culture arises and unfolds in and as play."

- Johan Huizinga

"The true object of all human life is play."

- G. K. Chesterton

"Play has been man’s most useful preoccupation."

- Frank Caplan

"People tend to forget that play is serious."

- David Hockney

"The very existence of youth is due in part to the necessity for play; the animal does not play because he is young, he has a period of youth because he must play."

- Karl Groos

"Now in myth and ritual the great instinctive forces of civilized life have their origin: law and order, commerce and profit, craft and art, poetry, wisdom and science. All are rooted in the primeval soil of play."

- Johan Huizinga

"Ritual grew up in sacred play; poetry was born in play and nourished on play; music and dancing were pure play…. We have to conclude, therefore, that civilization is, in its earliest phases, played. It does not come from play…it arises in and as play, and never leaves it."

- Johan Huizinga

"There is time for everything – Thomas Edison"

- Thomas Edison

"The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It’s our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows."

- Brené Brown

"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude."

- Aldous Huxley

"Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man's being alone. It has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone."

- Paul Tillich

"The soul does not know whether anything real answers its love."

- Simone Weil

"I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will."

- Henry David Thoreau

"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

"If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality."

- Socrates

"The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows."

- Socrates

"Every action has its pleasures and its price."

- Socrates

"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."

- Socrates

"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Numb the dark and you numb the light."

- Brené Brown

"Maybe stories are just data with a soul."

- Brené Brown

"The stories we tell ourselves are powerful because they weave around us like spiderwebs, and can either give us a place to rest or wrap us in a cocoon."

- Brené Brown

"Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. …"

- Kurt Vonnegut

"The wilderness is an untamed, unpredictable place of solitude and searching. It is a place as dangerous as it is breathtaking, a place as sought after as it is feared."

- Brené Brown

"The wilderness is where all the wild beasts roam—loneliness, fear, regret, and insecurity. But it’s also where the wild things are—love, belonging, joy, courage, and trust."

- Brené Brown

"What if it becomes less about how we look and more about how much we care? What if it becomes less about how much money we earn and more about how much we share our good fortune? Imagine a world where who we are in our hearts is the ultimate status symbol."

- Amy Leigh Mercree

"Weekends are the punctuation marks that give meaning to the sentence of our lives."

- Jesse Hunter

"Life is a journey, not a race"

"Life is what you make of it"