Top 200 Philosophy Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “We live in the best of all possible worlds.”

— Gottfried Leibniz

152. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”

— Lao Tzu

153. “There can be miracles when you believe.”

— Whitney Houston

154. “There are no ordinary moments.”

— Dan Millman

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

— Albert Camus

156. “Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”

— Lao Tzu

157. “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”

— Aristotle

158. “There is no such thing as a free lunch.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

160. “When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.”

— Alan Watts

161. “To lose patience is to lose the battle.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

162. “Lose your mind and come to your senses.”

— Frederick Salomon Perls

163. “I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.”

— Ayn Rand

164. “The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

165. “My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.”

— Anthony Hopkins

166. “Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

167. “The very purpose of our life is to seek happiness.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

168. “I think everybody should study ants. They have an amazing four-part philosophy. Never give up, look ahead, stay positive and do all you can.”

— Jim Rohn

169. “All cruelty springs from weakness.”

— Seneca

170. “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”

— Karl Marx

171. “To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

172. “I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.”

— John Adams

173. “Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.”

— Ludwig van Beethoven

174. “You know what music is? God’s little reminder that there’s something else besides us in this universe; harmonic connection between all living beings, every where, even the stars.”

— Robin Williams

175. “Your Philosophy of life shapes you more than anything else.”

— Tony Robbins

176. “One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.”

— Stephen Hawking

177. “Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he’s destroying is this God he’s worshiping.”

— Hubert Reeves

178. “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

179. “I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

180. “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”

— Elie Wiesel

181. “Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

182. “The human spirit is more powerful than any drug and THAT is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family. THESE are the things that matter.”

— Robin Williams

183. “Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God. Those who have no faith in themselves can never have faith in God.”

— Swami Vivekananda

184. “Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

185. “Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day.”

— Brian Tracy

186. “Investment philosophy is the clear understanding that by owning shares of stocks, one owns businesses, not pieces of paper.”

— Warren Buffett

187. “Never wait for tomorrow, what if tomorrow never comes?”

— Elvis Presley

188. “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

189. “The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.”

— Aristotle

190. “We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”

— Tom Robbins

191. “Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”

— Bertrand Russell

192. “Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.”

— Ayn Rand

193. “Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.”

— Ayn Rand

194. “If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place.”

— Lao Tzu

195. “In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

196. “The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

197. “To be or not to be that is the question.”

— William Shakespeare

198. “Objective judgement, now, at this very moment. Unselfish action, now, at this very moment. Willing acceptance – now, at this very moment – of all external events. That’s all you need.”

— Marcus Aurelius

199. “Rule your mind or it will rule you.”

— Horace

200. “This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”

— Alan Watts