Top 200 Philosophical Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Stillness is the only thing in this world that has no form. But then, it is not really a thing, and it is not of this world.”

— Eckhart Tolle

102. “Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end.”

— Immanuel Kant

103. “To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. For a man who claims to have knowledge, while actually knowing nothing, is less smart than you, who claim to know nothing.”

— Socrates

104. “It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”

— Epictetus

105. “If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.”

— Haruki Murakami

106. “Life is life – whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.”

— Sri Aurobindo

107. “Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”

— Epictetus

108. “And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?”

— Rumi

109. “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

110. “It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”

— René Descartes

111. “The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

112. “My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.”

— Ayn Rand

113. “The thinking person must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.”

— Albert Schweitzer

114. “To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

115. “You are already that which you seek.”

— Ramana Maharshi

116. “Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything which needs walls and curtains.”

— Marcus Aurelius

117. “Well begun is half done.”

— Aristotle

118. “Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth living through.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

119. “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.”

— Rumi

120. “It is up to you to give life a meaning.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

121. “All men by nature desire knowledge.”

— Aristotle

122. “Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.”

— Immanuel Kant

123. “Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.”

— Confucius

124. “Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.”

— Epictetus

125. “Hope is a waking dream.”

— Aristotle

126. “The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.”

— Confucius

127. “Each day provides its own gifts.”

— Marcus Aurelius

128. “Life begins where fear ends.”

— Osho

129. “Become who you are.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

130. “What you seek is seeking you.”

— Rumi

131. “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

— Seneca

132. “Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you’ll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, ‘Is this necessary?’”

— Marcus Aurelius

133. “If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.”

— Steve Jobs

134. “The past is past, and the future is yet to come. That means the future is in your hands – the future entirely depends on the present. That realization gives you a great responsibility.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

135. “Be – don’t try to become.”

— Osho

136. “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

137. “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

138. “To find yourself, think for yourself.”

— Socrates

139. “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

140. “As you think, so shall you become.”

— Bruce Lee

141. “Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.”

— Erich Fromm

142. “Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

143. “The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

144. “Where there is love there is life.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

145. “Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”

— Rumi

146. “We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”

— Seneca

147. “Alice came to a fork in the road. ‘Which road do I take?’ she asked. ‘Where do you want to go?’ responded the Cheshire Cat. ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the Cat, ’it doesn’t matter.”

— Lewis Carroll

148. “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.”

— Albert Camus

149. “Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.”

— Alan Watts

150. “Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein