“Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.”
Margaret Lee Runbeck · Time for Each Other, 1944
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Philosophy Quotes
180 quotes on philosophy and the big questions — from the classics to the everyday.
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.”
Albert Einstein · What I Believe, 1930
“Omnia, Lucili, aliena sunt, tempus tantum nostrum est.”
Seneca · Letters to Lucilius, Letter I
“If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations, Book XII
“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“The forest would be silent if no bird sang except the one that sang best.”
African Proverb
“A person is a person through other persons.”
Nguni Bantu Proverb · Ubuntu philosophy
“The one who tells the stories rules the world.”
Hopi Proverb
“A child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.”
African Proverb
“Rain does not fall on one roof alone.”
Cameroonian Proverb
“Until the lion learns to write, every story will glorify the hunter.”
African Proverb
“All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.”
Frank Lloyd Wright · The Natural House, 1954
“I think architecture is one of the predominant orderings of human experience.”
Richard Meier
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations, Book X
“The end of art is peace.”
Seamus Heaney · "The Harvest Bow," Field Work, 1979
“Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.”
John Shirley
“The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
Buddha · widely attributed
