{"id":9233,"date":"2019-09-24T17:53:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T17:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetofsuccess.com\/blog\/?p=9233"},"modified":"2020-02-09T16:35:28","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T16:35:28","slug":"philosophical-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetofsuccess.com\/blog\/philosophical-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"125 Thought-Provoking Philosophical Quotes to Inspire You"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever found yourself marveling at the ideas of a famous philosopher? If you did, we have a very special treat for you. In the following, you can find some of the most important philosophical quotes from the most famous philosophers of all time. Enjoy reading! P.S.: Be sure not to miss our selection of insightful Socrates quotes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ever since the dawn of civilization, there have always been curious individuals who were eager to investigate the central questions about existence. Their ambition to study various aspects of life to gain a deeper understanding led to the earliest traces of philosophical thoughts and led to the pursuit of wisdom.<\/p>\n

“Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.\u201d
\nEpictetus<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Out of the quest for knowledge slowly emerged Philosophy, which is Greek for “love of wisdom.\u201d Over time, the various philosophical methods such as questioning, articulating problems, rational argument, and critical discussion became more and more refined.<\/p>\n

\"Philosophical
These philosophical quotes are filled with wisdom about existence<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The beauty of philosophy is that it poses thought-provoking questions<\/a> and inspires us to think deeply about ourselves and life in general. Even more so, pondering about the ideas and perspectives outlined by different philosophers can help us to gain a better understanding of the world we live in.<\/p>\n

Among the vast sea of philosophical thoughts, it can be quite difficult to identify the pearls of wisdom and the hidden gems. To help you save yourself a lot of time and energy, we have collected for you some of the most inspirational thoughts of some of the greatest philosophers that ever walked this earth.<\/p>\n

125 Thought-Provoking Philosophical Quotes<\/h2>\n

Breaking complex subjects down and condensing their essence within a couple of sentences is a great art. Thanks to their exceptional observational skills, many philosophers have been able to do exactly that. As such, they have been able to deliver potent arguments and observations about many aspects of life.<\/p>\n

The following collection of thought-provoking and inspirational philosophical quotes is an excellent starting place to expose yourself with liberating and sometimes even mindbending philosophies. We hope you enjoy reading this collection of hand-selected wisdom by some of the finest philosophers of all time.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s our selection of the most important philosophical quotes<\/h3>\n

1.<\/h4>\n

“Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.\u201d
\nChristopher Markus<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Hardship<\/p>\n

2.<\/h4>\n

“There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.\u201d
\nSeneca<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Seneca<\/p>\n

3.<\/h4>\n

“Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.\u201d
\nAntoine de Saint-Exup\u00e9ry<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Philosophical<\/p>\n

4.<\/h4>\n

“Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.\u201d
\nVoltaire<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Quote<\/p>\n

5.<\/h4>\n

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.\u201d
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Power<\/p>\n

6.<\/h4>\n

“Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.\u201d
\nVictor Frankl<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

7.<\/h4>\n

“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.\u201d
\nBaruch Spinoza<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

8.<\/h4>\n

“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.\u201d
\nBruce Lee<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

9.<\/h4>\n

“I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.\u201d
\nAyn Rand<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

10.<\/h4>\n

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.\u201d
\nAlbert Einstein<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Do you want even more philosophical quotes? Read on…<\/h3>\n

11.<\/h4>\n

“Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward .”
\nS\u00f8ren Kierkegaard<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

12.<\/h4>\n

“Man is a mystery. It needs to be unraveled, and if you spend your whole life unraveling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.\u201d
\nFyodor Dostoevsky<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

13.<\/h4>\n

“The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.\u201d
\nLao Tzu<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

14.<\/h4>\n

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.\u201d
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

15.<\/h4>\n

“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.\u201d
\nAristotle<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

16.<\/h4>\n

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.\u201d
\nPlato<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

17.<\/h4>\n

“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.\u201d
\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

18.<\/h4>\n

“It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth.”
\nJohn Locke<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

19.<\/h4>\n

“The only thing I know is that I know nothing.”
\nSocrates<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

20.<\/h4>\n

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.\u201d
\nIsaac Asimov<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

21.<\/h4>\n

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.\u201d
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

22.<\/h4>\n

“Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of one’s desires, but by the removal of desire.”
\nEpictetus<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

23.<\/h4>\n

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.\u201d
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

24.<\/h4>\n

“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.”
\nEpicurus<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

25.<\/h4>\n

“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
\nS\u00f8ren Kierkegaard<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

26.<\/h4>\n

“Happiness is the highest good.”
\nAristotle<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

27.<\/h4>\n

“The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures.”
\nDemocritus<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

28.<\/h4>\n

“Without music, life would be a mistake.\u201d
\nFriedrich Nietzsche<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

29.<\/h4>\n

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.\u201d
\nMargaret Mead<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

30.<\/h4>\n

“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.\u201d
\nStephen Hawking<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Philosophical quotes like this are full of wisdom<\/h3>\n

31.<\/h4>\n

“Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.\u201d
\nLao Tsu<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

32.<\/h4>\n

“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love …\u201d
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

33.<\/h4>\n

“Liberty consists in doing what one desires.”
\nJohn Stuart Mill<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

34.<\/h4>\n

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.\u201d
\nPlato<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

35.<\/h4>\n

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
\nLudwig Wittgenstein<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

36.<\/h4>\n

“Simplicity, patience, compassion.
\nThese three are your greatest treasures.
\nSimple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
\nPatient with both friends and enemies,
\nyou accord with the way things are.
\nCompassionate toward yourself,
\nyou reconcile all beings in the world.\u201d
\nLao Tzu<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

37.<\/h4>\n

“Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature.”
\nJohn Locke<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

38.<\/h4>\n

“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.\u201d
\nFitzgerald F. Scott<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

39.<\/h4>\n

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”
\nEdmund Burke<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

40.<\/h4>\n

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.\u201d
\nGeorge Bernard Shaw<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

41.<\/h4>\n

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
\nAristotle<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

42.<\/h4>\n

“A truth that’s told with bad intent
\nBeats all the lies you can invent.\u201d
\nWilliam Blake<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

43.<\/h4>\n

“We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.”
\nSt. Augustine<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

44.<\/h4>\n

“Maybe everyone can live beyond what they’re capable of.\u201d
\nMarkus Zusak<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

45.<\/h4>\n

“Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative.”
\nAristotle<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

46.<\/h4>\n

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think\u201d
\nSocrates<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

47.<\/h4>\n

“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but of how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”
\nImmanuel Kant<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

48.<\/h4>\n

“We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.\u201d
\nSantosh Kalwar<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

49.<\/h4>\n

“It is wrong always, everywhere and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.”
\nW. K. Clifford<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

50.<\/h4>\n

“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.\u201d
\nYann Martel<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

51.<\/h4>\n

“I don\u2019t know why we are here, but I\u2019m pretty sure it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
\nLudwig Wittgenstein<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

52.<\/h4>\n

“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.\u201d
\nGilles Deleuze<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

53.<\/h4>\n

“One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.”
\nRen\u00e9 Descartes<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

54.<\/h4>\n

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.\u201d
\nConfucius<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

55.<\/h4>\n

“Even while they teach, men learn.”
\nSeneca<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

These philosophical quotes are on fire<\/h3>\n

56.<\/h4>\n

“Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.\u201d
\nIris Murdoch<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

57.<\/h4>\n

“Leisure is the mother of philosophy.”
\nThomas Hobbes<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

58.<\/h4>\n

“No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.\u201d
\nGeorge Lucas<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

59.<\/h4>\n

“Time is a game played beautifully by children.\u201d
\nHeraclitus<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

60.<\/h4>\n

“The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone.”
\nJohn Locke<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

61.<\/h4>\n

“This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.\u201d
\nDalai Lama XIV<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

62.<\/h4>\n

“Man is condemned to be free.”
\nJean-Paul Sartre<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

63.<\/h4>\n

“The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination.\u201d
\nDan Millman<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

64.<\/h4>\n

“All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.”
\nVoltaire<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

65.<\/h4>\n

“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.\u201d
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here are even more quotes about philosophy for you<\/h3>\n

66.<\/h4>\n

“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.”
\nBertrand Russell<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

67.<\/h4>\n

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.\u201d
\nAristotle<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

68.<\/h4>\n

“He who thinks great thoughts, often makes great errors.”
\nMartin Heidegger<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

69.<\/h4>\n

“I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.\u201d
\nLudwig Wittgenstein<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

70.<\/h4>\n

“A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men\u2019s minds about to religion.”
\nSir Francis Bacon<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

71.<\/h4>\n

“Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.\u201d
\nAyn Rand<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

72.<\/h4>\n

“Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.”
\nFrancis Bacon<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

73.<\/h4>\n

“To do as one would be done by, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.”
\nJohn Stuart Mill<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

74.<\/h4>\n

“Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable.”
\nG. W. F. Hegel<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

75.<\/h4>\n

“This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.”
\nBertrand Russell<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

76.<\/h4>\n

“Our life is what our thoughts make it.\u201d
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

77.<\/h4>\n

“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”
\nPlato<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

78.<\/h4>\n

“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.\u201d
\nWill Durant<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

79.<\/h4>\n

“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
\nSocrates<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

80.<\/h4>\n

“Don\u2019t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.\u201d
\nLudwig van Beethoven<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

81.<\/h4>\n

“That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless.”
\nPlato<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

82.<\/h4>\n

“The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don’t wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.\u201d
\nThich Nhat Hanh<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

83.<\/h4>\n

“History is Philosophy teaching by examples.”
\nThucydides<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

84.<\/h4>\n

“It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration, and respect.\u201d
\nHermann Hesse<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

85.<\/h4>\n

“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.”
\nRen\u00e9 Descartes<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Philosophical quotes like this really make you think<\/h3>\n

86.<\/h4>\n

“Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.\u201d
\nAlexandre Dumas<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

87.<\/h4>\n

“I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature.”
\nSpinoza<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

88.<\/h4>\n

“Don’t just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.\u201d
\nEpictetus<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

89.<\/h4>\n

“If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.”
\nBaruch Spinoza<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

90.<\/h4>\n

“It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.\u201d
\nSeneca<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

91.<\/h4>\n

“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.”
\nAristotle<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

92.<\/h4>\n

“Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.\u201d
\nSun Tzu<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

93.<\/h4>\n

“One cannot step twice in the same river.”
\nHeraclitus<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

94.<\/h4>\n

“If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.\u201d
\nVictor Cousin<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

95.<\/h4>\n

“Only one man ever understood me, and he didn\u2019t understand me.”
\nG. W. F. Hegel<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

96.<\/h4>\n

“Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awoke, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.\u201d
\nZhuangzi<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

97.<\/h4>\n

“We live in the best of all possible worlds.”
\nGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

98.<\/h4>\n

“If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.\u201d
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

99.<\/h4>\n

“The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone.”
\nJohn Locke<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

100.<\/h4>\n

“Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.\u201d
\nLao Tzu<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

101.<\/h4>\n

“It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.”
\nBertrand Russell<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

102.<\/h4>\n

“Physics isn’t the most important thing. Love is.\u201d
\nRichard P. Feynman<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

103.<\/h4>\n

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
\nSocrates<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

104.<\/h4>\n

“I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.\u201d
\nAyn Rand<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

105.<\/h4>\n

“I think therefore I am.”
\nRen\u00e9 Descartes<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

106.<\/h4>\n

“I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage\u201d
\nFredrich Nietzsche<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

107.<\/h4>\n

“Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.”
\nImmanuel Kant<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

108.<\/h4>\n

“Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.\u201d
\nHenry David Thoreau<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

109.<\/h4>\n

“Virtue is nothing else than right reason.”
\nSeneca<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

110.<\/h4>\n

“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.\u201d
\nAristotle<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

111.<\/h4>\n

“Man is the measure of all things.”
\nProtagoras<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

112.<\/h4>\n

“Madness is something rare in individuals \u2014 but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.\u201d
\nFriedrich Nietzsche<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

113.<\/h4>\n

“In everything, there is a share of everything.”
\nAnaxagoras<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

114.<\/h4>\n

“The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure….you are above everything distressing.\u201d
\nSpinoza<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

115.<\/h4>\n

“No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.”
\nJohn Locke<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

116.<\/h4>\n

“Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.\u201d
\nLeo Tolstoy<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

117.<\/h4>\n

“Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily.”
\nWilliam of Ockham<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

118.<\/h4>\n

“One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion\u201d
\nSimone de Beauvoir<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

119.<\/h4>\n

“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”
\nLudwig Wittgenstein<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

120.<\/h4>\n

“The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without: to follow one’s own path, not that of the crowd.\u201d
\nNicholas Tharcher<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

121.<\/h4>\n

“Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains.”
\nJean-Jacques Rousseau<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

122.<\/h4>\n

“It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.\u201d
\nJean-Paul Sartre<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

123.<\/h4>\n

“Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don’t know.”
\nBertrand Russell<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

124.<\/h4>\n

“Words do not express thoughts very well; everything immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom of one man seems nonsense to another.\u201d
\nSiddhartha Gautama<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

125.<\/h4>\n

“What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational.”
\nG. W. F. Hegel<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I hope you enjoyed this collection of philosophical quotes. Who is your favorite philosopher and why?<\/p>\n

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Have you ever found yourself marveling at the ideas of a famous philosopher? If you did, we have a very special treat for you. In the following, you can find some of the most important philosophical quotes from the most famous philosophers of all time. Enjoy reading! 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