Thoughtful Quotes about Life

Life is a precious gift given by God. Everyone has their own motives and goals in life. Some live the life with practical thinking whereas some with philosophical thought. It’s an individual’s own way of living it. Here are some of the philosophical quotes about life listed.

1. “Don’t live your life through what ifs, live it with I knows.” - Marco Zuniga
2. “The unexamined life is not worth living” - Socrates
3. “Your Life is a series of moments in ‘now’. The better you make your ‘now’ the better your life.” - Karen Salmansohn
4. “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent” - Ludwig Wittgenstein
5. “Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if one only remembers to turn on the lights.” - Albus Dumbledore
6. “The life of man (in a state of nature) is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short” - Thomas Hobbes
7. “Intelligence without ambition is a Bird without wings.” - Salvador Dali
8. “I think therefore I am” - René Descartes
9. “Holding on to anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.” - Buddha
10. “He who thinks great thoughts, often makes great errors” - Martin Heidegger
11. “To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.” - Joseph Chilton Pearce
12. “We live in the best of all possible worlds” - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
13. “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” - Oprah Winfrey
14. “What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational” - G. W. F. Hegel
15. “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” - Qscar Wilde
16. “God is dead! He remains dead! And we have killed him.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
17. “Being deeply loved gives you strength; loving deeply gives you courage.” - Lao Tzu
18. “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide” - Albert Camus
19. “There are far better things ahead that we leave behind.” - C. S Lewis
20. “One cannot step twice in the same river” - Heraclitus
21. “I wish I could show you when you are lonely… or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.” - Hafez
22. “The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation” - Jeremy Bentham
23. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” - Aristotle
24. “To be is to be perceived” (“Esse est percipi”) - Bishop George Berkeley
25. “Every situation no matter how challenging, conspiring to bring you into greater vibrational energy. Will you receive it?” - Panache Desai
26. “Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination” - Immanuel Kant
27. “There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talent, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.” - Sophia Loren
28. “No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience” - John Locke
29. “Ride the energy of your own unique spirit.” - Gabrielle Roth
30. “God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us” - Niccolo Machiavelli
31. “The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.” - Oscar Wilde
32. “Liberty consists in doing what one desires” - John Stuart Mill
33. “There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance” - Socrates
34. “It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true” - Bertrand Russell
35. “Leisure is the mother of philosophy” - Thomas Hobbes
36. “Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language” - Ludwig Wittgenstein
37. “If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him” - Voltaire
38. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit” - Aristotle
39. “This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities” - Bertrand Russell
40. “Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me” - G. W. F. Hegel
41. “One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another” - René Descartes
42. “Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward” - Søren Kierkegaard
43. “Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck” - Immanuel Kant
44. “There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers” - William James
45. “Happiness is the highest good” - Aristotle
46. “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation” - Plato
47. “The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone” - John Locke
48. “Is man merely a mistake of God’s? Or God merely a mistake of man’s?” - Friedrich Nietzsche
49. “Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don’t know” - Bertrand Russell
50. “Religion is the sign of the oppressed … it is the opium of the people” - Karl Marx
51. “Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly” - Francis Bacon
52. “History is Philosophy teaching by examples” - Thucydides
53. “He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god” - Aristotle
54. “Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits” - William James
55. “The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it” - Epicurus
56. “If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.” - Seth Godin
57. “Man is condemned to be free” - Jean-Paul Sartre
58. “I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong” - Bertrand Russell
59. “Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable” - G. W. F. Hegel
60. “I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure it is not in order to enjoy ourselves” - Ludwig Wittgenstein
61. “If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil” - Baruch Spinoza
62. “That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless” - Plato
63. “Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains” - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
64. “Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but of how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness” - Immanuel Kant
65. “All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds” - Voltaire
66. “It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to out him in possession of truth” - John Locke
67. “Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest” - Denis Diderot
68. “I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature” - Spinoza
69. “The only thing I know is that I know nothing” - Socrates
70. “It is wrong always, everywhere and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence” - W. K. Clifford
71. “The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the on who prays” - Søren Kierkegaard
72. “The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone” - John Locke
73. “If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things” - René Descartes
74. “Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of one’s desires, but by the removal of desire” - Epictetus
75. “Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative” - Aristotle
76. “In everything, there is a share of everything” - Anaxagoras
77. “Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it” - Karl Marx
78. “Man is the measure of all things” - Protagoras
79. “Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident” - Jean-Paul Sartre
80. “The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures” - Democritus
81. “We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone” - St. Augustine
82. “Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature” - John Locke
83. “A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion” - Sir Francis Bacon
84. “You just listen to your own heart. That is your only teacher.” - Osho
85. “To do as one would be done by, and to love one’s neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality” - John Stuart Mill
86. “The trick is to enjoy life. Don’t wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead.” - Marjorie Pay Hinckley

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