Philosophical Quotes
When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.
- W.S. Merwin
We become aware of the void as we fill it.
- W.S. Merwin
I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.
- W.S. Merwin
You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you.
- Antonio Porchia
Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
- Edward Albee
Man is not measured by his normality, but rather by his deviation from it.
We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.
- Jean Toomer
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
- Dorothy Parker
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it is on your plate.
- Thornton Wilder
The obstacle is the path.
- Zen Proverb
We are spirits clad in veils.
- Christopher P. Cranch
What will survive of us is love.
- Philip Larkin
By daily dying I have come to be.
- Theodore Roethke
We learn only from those we love.
- Johann Eckermann
I am a part of all that I have met.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
- Charles Dickens
Whoso loves believes the impossible.
- Elizabeth Barrett
One man’s quiet is another man’s din.
- Carrie Latet
Seeking is not always the way to find.
- Augustus William Hare
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Astonishment is the root of philosophy.
- Paul Tillich
A gun gives you the body, not the bird.
- Henry David Thoreau
Skin is a covering for our immortality.
- Ever Garrison
A thousand men can’t undress a naked man.
- Greek Proverb
Knock on the sky and listen to the sound.
- Zen Proverb
Before I travelled my road I was my road.
- W.S. Merwin
It must be so, Plato, thou reason’st well!
- Joseph Addison
You cannot step into the same river twice.
- Heraclitus
History is Philosophy teaching by examples.
- Thucydides
Will localizes us; thought universalizes us.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
- George Gordon
There are some remedies worse than the disease.
- Publilius Syrus
Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
- Aristotle
The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.
- Buddha
Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
- Roger Miller
I feel lucky, happy and philosophical about it all.
- Greta Scacchi
Who depends on another man’s table often dines late.
- John Ray
Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day.
- Polish Proverb
If you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible.
- Ram Dass


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