Best Philosophical Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“There is such dissociation between what the eyes see and what the mind envisions. The final thought is just a matter of interpretation, coloured by our experiences.”

“Romantics. This book does contain some romantic ideas, and romantic situations that are of the heart, nothing that is in anyway X rated, not even R. But definitely a bit of romance.”

“Not knowing is not a problem, not wondering is.”

“Just to say 'I believe' or 'I do not doubt' does not mean that you understand and see. To force oneself to see and accept a thing without understanding is political and not spiritual or intellectual.”

“That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.”

“The moon shines in my body, but my blind eyes cannot see it:”

“hanging at the corner
of then and now
the
everything”

“Were knowledge all, what were our need”

“This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.”

“Ο θάνατος είναι πάντα από μόνος του μια απόδειξη ειλικρίνειας.”

“Truths are as much a matter of questions as answers.”

“Could mankind declare it was truly wise? Did man know everything on earth, or would he ever? Certainly not!”

“Pretty much all memory is fiction and heavily edited.”

“I don't reckon misery loves any damn thing at all.”

“When you think you are acting wisely, we smile because we see you blindly naked. Said the elders".”

“Goodness and evil know no gender; virtue and vice reside in the mind, not in one’s sex.”

“There are no laws, only habits of existence so deep that to break them would require unmaking the world that contains them.”

“The Philosopher’s Weight by Stewart Stafford”

“A lizard brain fired the gun that wounded you, but it was the combination of three brains that orchestrated the elaborate circumstances in which the trigger was pulled. Way back when, the Landlord believed a second brain would endow some of his lower life forms with the capacity for emotional connections. By adding the third brain, he probably planned on having his... higher forms empowered with the ability to not only think before acting, but to feel regret afterwards when their actions were wrong. But that’s not what happened, is it?”

“I do, I am”

“Our physical world seems ready and able to accommodate the needs of the spiritually awakened new Superhuman. The constraints or demands of our material world are not the real problem; it is our own spiritual awareness and philosophical wisdom that is lagging behind.”

“... what you think is right isn't the same as knowing what is right.”

“That vice has often proved an emancipator of the mind, is one of the most humiliating, but, at the same time, one of the most unquestionable facts in history.”

“Es decir..., lo que yo creo es que el hombre piensa en el significado de la vida porque sabe con certeza que va morir algún día. (...) Nadie sabe lo que va a ocurrir. Por eso nosotros, para evolucionar necesitamos la muerte.”

“Despite its dark veins, the transparency of dragonfly’s wings assures me of a pure, innocent world”

“The life we’re given is on a thread, so wear it well.”

“Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?”

“You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.”

“Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?”

“What one thinks is right is not always the same as what others think is right; no one can be always right.”