Top 200 Philosophy Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Whoever values peace of mind and the health of the soul will live the best of all possible lives.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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2. “We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.”

— Epictetus

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3. “Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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4. “What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterward.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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5. “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”

— Rumi

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6. “Knowledge is power.”

— Francis Bacon

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7. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”

— Confucius

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8. “Respect yourself and others will respect you.”

— Confucius

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9. “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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10. “You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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11. “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”

— Confucius

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12. “The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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13. “You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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14. “I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.”

— Socrates

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15. “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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16. “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”

— Seneca

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17. “If it is not right do not do it. If it is not true do not say it.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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18. “Life is the dancer and you are the dance.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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19. “I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.”

— Aristotle

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20. “I only know one thing, and that is I know nothing.”

— Socrates

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21. “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

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22. “Accomplish but do not boast, accomplish without show, accomplish without arrogance, accomplish without grabbing, accomplish without forcing.”

— Lao Tzu

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23. “It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.”

— Seneca

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24. “Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.”

— Lao Tzu

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25. “All that you see out in front of you is how you feel inside your head.”

— Alan Watts

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26. “Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”

— Seneca

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27. “If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.”

— Lao Tzu

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28. “Receive without conceit, release without struggle.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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29. “Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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30. “Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.”

— Lao Tzu

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31. “Because you are alive, everything is possible.”

— Nhat Hanh

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32. “God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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33. “Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.”

— Lao Tzu

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34. “The future is a concept, it doesn’t exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will be, because time is always now. That’s one of the things we discover when we stop talking to ourselves and stop thinking. We find there is only present, only an eternal now.”

— Alan Watts

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35. “Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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36. “Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world.”

— Alan Watts

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37. “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

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38. “There are no facts, only interpretations.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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39. “Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.”

— Socrates

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40. “For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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41. “Know thyself.”

— Socrates

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42. “Choose not to be harmed and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed and you haven’t been.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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43. “You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can’t control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.”

— Marcus Aurelius

Also featured in: Reflection Quotes, Serenity Quotes, Thought Provoking Quotes

44. “What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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45. “To hold, you must first open your hand. Let go.”

— Lao Tzu

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46. “To see things in the seed, that is genius.”

— Lao Tzu

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47. “Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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48. “You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire.”

— Seneca

49. “The truth is: you don’t have a life, you are life.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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50. “Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not.”

— Epictetus

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