Top Philosophy Quotes

I only know that I know nothing

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who h...

Philosophy Definition

(n.) Literally, the love of, including the search after, wisdom; in actual usage, the knowledge of phenomena as explained by, and resolved into, causes and reasons, powers and laws.

(n.) A particular philosophical system or theory; the hypothesis by which particular phenomena are explained.

(n.) Practical wisdom; calmness of temper and judgment; equanimity; fortitude; stoicism; as, to meet misfortune with philosophy.

(n.) Reasoning; argumentation.

(n.) The course of sciences read in the schools.

(n.) A treatise on philosophy.

I am my world.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

[T]he concern of man is not his future but his present, not the world but his soul. We must be just, we must strive, we must engage ourselves with the business of the world for our own sake, because t...

The Greeks who rhapsodized about democracy in their rhetoric rarely created democratic institutions. A few cities such as Athens occasionally attempted a system vaguely akin to democracy for a few yea...

I want to talk about another kind of high country now in the world of thought, which in some ways, for me at least, seems to parallel or produce feelings similar to this, and call it the high country...

In the real journey of life, it is not what you do; it is what you don't do that matters the most.

The frog in the well knows nothing more grand than its own tiny well.

The moon is the same but the observers are different.

Before you can change your life for the better, change your thoughts for the better.

Each sunrise brings a new day with new hopes for a new beginning.

Do not feel alone.You are connected to everyoneyesterday, today, and for days to come connected with a threadless garlandthat is love.

In the morning, people have a plan for that day. Hardworking people think of what they will do during the day, and idle people on what they should do.

Problems often become worse if incompetent people try to solve them.

So many love affairs doesn't survive, because the couple has been very loving to each other but with the time they stop respecting each other.

Just read one book a month and at the end of they year you would be totally different but an impressive personality.

The universal law is very simple, but we look at it in a complex way.

Integrity is the essence of a beautiful, ethical life.

An intelligent person is eager to speak, but a wise person is eager to listen.