Deep Philosophical Quotes

Philosophy is an excellent source of inspiration and motivation. Let’s see some of the most famous philosophical quotes by great philosophers. It will definitely bring some changes in your life.

Best Philosophy Quotes

You can’t learn anything when you’re talking. That’s a fact of life. As long as you’re talking, you’re not listening.

Sylvester Stallone (Rocky Balboa)

If you are depressed you are living in the past, if you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

– Lao Tzu

We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.

Santosh Kalwar

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Marcus Aurelius

Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world.

Lao Tzu

Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.

Sun Tzu

If they spit at you behind your back it means you’re ahead of them.

– Confucius

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

– Confucius

Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward.

Søren Kierkegaard

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

Oprah Winfrey

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

Gilles Deleuze

Success is a lousy teacher, but failure is a friend, philosopher, and guide.

– Ayushmann Khurrana

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Marcus Aurelius

The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures.

Democritus

Before you give up, think of the reason you held on so long.

Drake

When you learn to survive without anyone, you can survive anything.

– The Sculptress

The secret of happiness, you see is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

If you hate a person, then you’re defeated by them.

– Confucius

The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.

Swami Vivekananda

Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.

Lao Tsu

Life without experience and sufferings is not life.

– Socrates

Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the most wonderful things that will ever happen to us.

– Nicole Reed

We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.

St. Augustine

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

Socrates

Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

– Simone de Beauvoir

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it, is committing another mistake.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Confucius

The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone.

John Locke

Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.

Bruce Lee

The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination.

Dan Millman

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

– Mark Twain

I make myself rich by making my wants few.

– Henry David Thoreau

Happiness is a state of mind. It’s just according to the way you look at things.

– Walt Disney Company

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

– Mae West

When you start looking at people’s hearts instead of their faces, life becomes clear.

Never change just to be accepted by others. Stay weird.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

– Lao Tzu

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

– Confucius

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

– Dalai Lama

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

– Aristotle

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

– Albert Einstein

Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.

– C.S. Lewis

Our life is like a block of ice which is melting away every moment. Before it spends itself, devote it to the service of others. Education in human values is designed to prepare everyone for this life of dedicated service.

Dalai Lama