Top 200 Philosophy Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “To find yourself, think for yourself.”

— Socrates

102. “Through discipline comes freedom.”

— Aristotle

103. “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

104. “The best fighter is never angry.”

— Lao Tzu

105. “Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.”

— Lao Tzu

106. “To a mind that is still the whole universe surrenders.”

— Lao Tzu

107. “What we do now echoes in eternity.”

— Marcus Aurelius

108. “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.”

— Victor Hugo

109. “Change is the only constant.”

— Heraclitus

110. “No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”

— Aristotle

111. “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”

— Lao Tzu

112. “A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”

— Lao Tzu

113. “Experience life in all possible ways – good, bad, bitter-sweet, dark, light, summer, winter. Experience all the dualities. Don’t be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.”

— Osho

114. “Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.”

— Democritus

115. “Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed – borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves.”

— Osho

116. “It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.”

— Eckhart Tolle

117. “If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.”

— Confucius

118. “It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”

— Marcus Aurelius

119. “In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.”

— Karl Marx

120. “Don’t allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily.”

— Paulo Coelho

121. “The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

122. “If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”

— Seneca

123. “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

124. “It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination. Its a crazy world out there. Be curious.”

— Stephen Hawking

125. “Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force.”

— Lao Tzu

126. “Please, don’t worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting.”

— Robin Williams

127. “By letting go it all gets done.”

— Lao Tzu

128. “I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.”

— Bertrand Russell

129. “The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”

— Bertrand Russell

130. “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”

— Marcus Aurelius

131. “He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.”

— Lao Tzu

132. “The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”

— Marcus Aurelius

133. “All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.”

— Swami Vivekananda

134. “Everything is Energy and that is all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you can not help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.”

— Albert Einstein

135. “Happiness is a state of activity.”

— Aristotle

136. “Act without expectation.”

— Lao Tzu

137. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”

— Socrates

138. “The beginning is the most important part of the work.”

— Plato

139. “No man was ever wise by chance.”

— Seneca

140. “Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.”

— Osho

141. “There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.”

— Napoleon Hill

142. “The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

144. “I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land.”

— Seneca

145. “For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

146. “My philosophy is to “kill the monster while it’s little.” The best time to handle a “negative” emotion is when you first begin to feel it. It’s much more difficult to interrupt an emotional pattern once it’s full-blown.”

— Tony Robbins

147. “The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”

— Marcus Aurelius

148. “Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.”

— Swami Vivekananda

149. “Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”

— Marcus Aurelius

150. “Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche