Philosophy Quotes

"“A philosopher once asked, ‘Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?’ Pointless, really … ’Do the stars gaze back?’ Now that’s a question.”"

- Neil Gaiman

"Beauty and folly are old companions."

- Benjamin Franklin

"The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer."

- Joan Collins

"Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant."

- Douglas Horton

"Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it."

- Lloyd Alexander

"Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor."

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

"It's beauty in the struggle, ugliness in the success."

- J. Cole

"Sometimes our dreams come true, sometimes our fears do too."

- J. Cole

"In this life ain't no happy endings. Only pure beginnings followed by years of sinning and fake repentance."

- J. Cole

"Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people."

- David Sarnoff

"Life really does begin at 40. Up until then, you are just doing research."

- Carl Rogers

"Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law."

- President Thomas Jefferson

"Any work of architecture which does not express serenity is a mistake."

- Luis Barragán

"Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude."

- Alexis de Tocqueville

"Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived."

- Madeleine L'Engle

"Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad."

- A.A. Milne

"For in the idea of chess and the development of the chess mind we have a picture of the intellectual struggle of mankind."

- Richard Wright

"The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart."

- St. Jerome

"If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering."

- Viktor Frankl

"I am ready to meet my maker. Whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."

- Winston Churchill

"The White House is the finest prison in the world."

- Harry S. Truman

"The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head. Often the best part of your work will have nothing to do with potions and powders, but with the exercise of an influence of the strong upon the weak, of the righteous upon the wicked, of the wise upon the foolish."

- William Osler

"Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home."

- Matsuo Basho

"How is never as important as why."

- Namor / K'uk'ulkan

"The sky holds riddles that challenge the bounds of understanding."

"The sky listens to the silence of our questions."

"The sky is the ultimate philosopher, ever pondering infinity."

"The sky is a reminder that we are all capable of philosophy."

"Reason is the compass, but wonder often provides the map."

"The art of thinking is as vital as the act of knowing."