Famous Philosophical Quotes

#1. My life has been a series of well-orchestrated accidents; I've always suffered from hallucinogenic optimism.

Evan Williams

#2. That all things are possible to him who believes, that they are less difficult to him who hopes, they are more easy to him who loves, and still more easy to him who perseveres in the practice of these three virtues.

Brother Lawrence

#3. If you aren't serving, you're just existing, because life is meant for ministry.

Rick Warren

#4. Building a happy life usually takes constant renovations.

Sarah Noffke

#5. Vengeful as nature herself, she loves her children only in order to devour them better and if she herself rips her own veils of self-deceit, Mother perceives in herself untold abysses of cruelty as subtle as it is refined.

Angela Carter

#6. One of the main reasons I write fiction is to try to understand what life is like for people other than myself, to try to see the world through my characters' eyes. I often find that I'm able to understand certain emotional truths about my own life by exploring things from different vantages.

Molly Antopol

#7. I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever read about endings was Peter Brooks' 'Reading for the Plot. '

Lev Grossman

#8. I've seen Australia and I've lived on an asteroid and I'd take the asteroid.

Orson Scott Card

#9. One of the century's most famous intellectual pronouncements comes at the beginning of The Myth of Sisyphus: There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

William Styron

#10. I walk into rooms and I don't know why I'm there. I'm like, 'Why am I standing in front of the toilet now?'

Matthew Broderick

#11. ...he didn't know if he was Chuang Tzu who dreamed he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he was Chuang Tzu.

Inio Asano

#12. I decided that if I was never going to sell anything as long as I lived, I might as well do what I want to do 'cause then at least I would've done what I wanted to do in life. What's that worth?

Janet Fitch

#13. Always skip to the pub to enjoy your barley and hops

Benny Bellamacina

#14. I happen to believe that the preemption school is correct, that the risks of allowing Saddam Hussein to acquire his weapons will only grow with time.

Charles Krauthammer

#15. Iron deficiency can lead to a wardrobe full of crumpled clothes

Benny Bellamacina

#16. you were not wrong for leaving
you were wrong for coming back
and thinking
you could have me
when it was convenient
and leave when it was not

Rupi Kaur

#17. The greatest enemy of truth is often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

Steve Berry

#18. God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

Bono

#19. He was one of those people who feel so compelled to fulfill duties that they go plunging into great collapsing edifices constructed entirely of disagreeable duties simply out of the fear that some secret, inconspicuous duty might somehow elude them.

Robert Walser