Top 200 Philosophical Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”

— Lao Tzu

152. “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

— Oscar Wilde

153. “If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.”

— Jesse Jackson

154. “There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.”

— Swami Vivekananda

155. “Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”

— Rumi

156. “The best things in life make you sweaty.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

157. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.”

— Aristotle

158. “Forgiveness is the final form of love.”

— Reinhold Niebuhr

159. “You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

160. “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

161. “You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will live as one.”

— John Lennon

162. “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

— Joseph Campbell

163. “As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”

— Seneca

164. “Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

165. “You have two choices, to control your mind or to let your mind control you.”

— Paulo Coelho

166. “No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

167. “Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”

— Seneca

168. “You are what you believe yourself to be.”

— Paulo Coelho

169. “Punishment is justice for the unjust.”

— Saint Augustine

170. “There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

171. “Stop leaving and you will arrive. Stop searching and you will see. Stop running away and you will be found.”

— Lao Tzu

172. “Be like water, my friend.”

— Bruce Lee

173. “Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.”

— William James

174. “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”

— Leo Tolstoy

175. “A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.”

— Lao Tzu

176. “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

— Aristotle

177. “When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.”

— Epictetus

178. “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”

— Rumi

179. “Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.”

— Jim Rohn

180. “When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you.”

— Lao Tzu

181. “Do not go gently into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.”

— Dylan Thomas

182. “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”

— Lao Tzu

183. “Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

— Eckhart Tolle

184. “Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

185. “I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

186. “I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!”

— Charles Dickens

187. “As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.”

— Rumi

188. “Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”

— Laozi

189. “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”

— Lao Tzu

190. “When you cease to dream you cease to live.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

191. “When I say be creative I don’t mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.”

— Osho

192. “All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

193. “Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

194. “We accept the love we think we deserve.”

— Stephen Chbosky

195. “You are the universe experiencing itself.”

— Alan Watts

196. “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

197. “Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

198. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

— Oscar Wilde

199. “While we wait for life, life passes.”

— Seneca

200. “Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?”

— Charles Dickens