Philosophy Quotes

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Philosophy Quotes

Explore meaningful philosophy quotes that speak to real life. Drawn from great minds across time, this collection offers clarity, comfort and inspiration when you need it most.

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"Wherever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else."

-- Angelina Jolie

"Wherever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else."

-- Angelina Jolie

"I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause."

-- Angelina Jolie

"I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause."

-- Angelina Jolie

"If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do."

-- Angelina Jolie

"If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do."

-- Angelina Jolie

"I don't believe in regret, I feel everything leads us to where we are and we have to just jump forward, mean well, commit and just see what happens."

-- Angelina Jolie

"I don't believe in regret, I feel everything leads us to where we are and we have to just jump forward, mean well, commit and just see what happens."

-- Angelina Jolie

"People have two sides, a good side and a bad side, a past, a future. We must embrace both in someone we love."

-- Angelina Jolie

"People have two sides, a good side and a bad side, a past, a future. We must embrace both in someone we love."

-- Angelina Jolie

"The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction."

-- Plato

"The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction."

-- Plato

"No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good."

-- Plato

"No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good."

-- Plato

"You should not honor men more than truth."

-- Plato

"You should not honor men more than truth."

-- Plato

"Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete."

-- Plato

"Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete."

-- Plato

"Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder."

-- Plato

"Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder."

-- Plato

"Man is a being in search of meaning."

-- Plato

"Man is a being in search of meaning."

-- Plato

"Death is not the worst that can happen to men."

-- Plato

"Death is not the worst that can happen to men."

-- Plato

"Thinking: the soul talking to itself."

-- Plato

"Thinking: the soul talking to itself."

-- Plato

"Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil."

-- Plato

"Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil."

-- Plato

"There is no learning without remembering."

-- Socrates

"There is no learning without remembering."

-- Socrates

"I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live."

-- Socrates

"I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live."

-- Socrates

"Beauty is a short-lived tyranny."

-- Socrates

"Beauty is a short-lived tyranny."

-- Socrates

"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature."

-- Socrates

"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature."

-- Socrates

"Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it."

-- Socrates

"Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it."

-- Socrates

"Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior."

-- Socrates

"Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior."

-- Socrates

"The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms."

-- Socrates

"The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms."

-- Socrates

"Nothing is to be preferred before justice."

-- Socrates

"Nothing is to be preferred before justice."

-- Socrates

"Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down."

-- Socrates

"Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down."

-- Socrates

"How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him?"

-- Socrates

"How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him?"

-- Socrates

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Explore meaningful philosophy quotes that speak to real life. Drawn from great minds across time, this collection offers clarity, comfort and inspiration when you need it most.

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Popular philosophy quotes include: "Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intellect, and ego — these are the eightfold division of My nature." -- Krishna Also: "The unreal has no existence; the real never ceases to be." -- Krishna.

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