“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Socrates · Plato, Apology
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Philosophy Quotes
363 quotes on philosophy and the big questions — from the classics to the everyday.
“I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct.”
Lionel Messi
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.”
Henry David Thoreau · Walden, 1854; recited by the Dead Poets Society club
“Just when you think you know something, you have to look at it in another way.”
John Keating · Dead Poets Society, 1989
“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.”
John Keating · Dead Poets Society, 1989
“Measure the two sides you can see, and the one you fear is already accounted for.”
Original
“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”
Seneca · Letters to Lucilius
“There is a privilege in being alive. Just don't waste it.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?”
Henry David Thoreau · Letter, 1857
“Silence is better than unmeaning words.”
Pythagoras
“Reason is immortal, all else mortal.”
Pythagoras
“The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.”
Pythagoras
“As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.”
Pythagoras
“It is better either to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence.”
Pythagoras
“Do not allow sleep to close your eyes until you have gone over the events of the day three times.”
Pythagoras · Golden Verses
“Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.”
Pythagoras
“Above all things, reverence yourself.”
Pythagoras · Golden Verses
