Philosophy Quotes

"I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you."

- Bill Withers

"Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person."

- Chanakya

"The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds."

- Jawaharlal Nehru

"If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face."

- Rumi

"Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Many go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise, so also we would not require the medical art for relief if we were immune to disease, as was the case, by God's gift, at the time of Creation before the Fall."

- Saint Basil

"One man’s “magic” is another man’s engineering. “Supernatural” is a null word."

- Robert A. Heinlein

"Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!"

- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

"“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”"

- George Orwell

"My philosophy is basically this, and this is something I live by, and always have, and always will. Don't ever, for any reason, do anything to anyone, for any reason, no matter what... ever, for any reason whatsoever."

- Michael Scott

"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."

- Oscar Wilde

"Life is far too important a thing to ever talk seriously about."

- Oscar Wilde

"“Christmas is the day that holds all time together.”"

- Alexander Smith

"When you get there, there isn't any there there."

- Zen Proverb

"Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly."

- Winston Churchill

"What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests."

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities."

- James Baldwin

"Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time."

- James Baldwin

"The world slides, the world goes, and death makes equal the rich and the poor."

- Bangambiki Habyarimana

"I’ve only ever heard the phrase ‘i don’t care about winning’ by those that lost, and the phrase ‘money is the root of all evil’ by those that are broke. Interesting that."

- Sahil M

""Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.""

- Napolean Hill

"Divorces are made in heaven."

- Oscar Wilde

"The world isn’t split into good people and Death Eaters."

- J.K. Rowling

"The brain is wider than the sky."

- Emily Dickinson

"In the eye of the tornado, there's no more high and low, no floor and sky."

- Francis Alys

"Leap years remind us that time, like life, is not fixed."

"You want a physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died."

"The sky’s infinity mirrors the depth of our souls."

"In the dance of clouds, understand life’s transient beauty."