Philosophy Quote by Epicurus — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.”

“If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.”

“The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.”

“Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.”

“He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed.”

“Don't fear the gods,”

“I'm probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don't think anyone really knows. You'll either find out or not when you get there, until then there's no point thinking about it.”

“One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else.”

“Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.”

“He was thinking that the cities, perhaps, needed to look into the future even more than the country did. They should look ahead for forty, eighty, one hundred and sixty years, to a strong and healthy plain of population - or to an overworked, weakened, underfed, and infertile desert.”

“Time is simply the measurement of human progression against that of existence.”

“Education shows the path to the door of opportunity. It gives confidence and hope to open it.”