Famous philosopher quotes

The unexamined life is not worth living. – Socrates

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. – Plato

I think, therefore I am. – René Descartes

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. – Aristotle

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. – Socrates

Man is condemned to be free. – Jean-Paul Sartre

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. – Jeremy Bentham

Cogito, ergo sum. (I think, therefore I am.) – René Descartes

The life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. – Thomas Hobbes

The mind is everything. What you think you become. – Buddha

I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature. – Spinoza

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. – David Hume

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. – Albert Camus

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. – Søren Kierkegaard

The only thing I know is that I know nothing. – Socrates

Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. – Immanuel Kant

Famous philosopher quotes part 2

The first step towards wisdom is to admit that you know nothing. – Socrates

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. – Socrates

One cannot step twice in the same river. – Heraclitus

To be, or not to be: that is the question. – William Shakespeare, Hamlet

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. – Buddha

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. – Albert Einstein

The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know. – Blaise Pascal

We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. – Richard Dawkins

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. – Nelson Mandela

The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know. – Albert Einstein

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. – Marcus Aurelius

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. – Arthur Rubinstein

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. – Robert Frost

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. – Buddha

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far. – Swami Vivekananda

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. – Steve Jobs

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

Believe you can and you’re halfway there. – Theodore Roosevelt

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. – Socrates

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Without music, life would be a mistake. – Friedrich Nietzsche

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. – Oscar Wilde

Turn your wounds into wisdom. – Oprah Winfrey

The greatest teacher, failure is. – Yoda (from Star Wars)

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. – Wayne Gretzky

The mind is everything. What you think, you become. – Buddha

Life is the sum of all your choices. – Albert Camus