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Philosophy Quotes
363 quotes on philosophy and the big questions — from the classics to the everyday.
“The summer night is like a perfection of thought.”
Wallace Stevens · Harmonium
“Dignity under pressure is its own kind of answer to the world.”
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“Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth.”
Arthur Schopenhauer · "Counsels and Maxims", 1851
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive, to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
Marcus Aurelius · "Meditations", Book II, c. 161–180 AD
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.”
Henry David Thoreau · Journal, 1859
“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”
William Blake · "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell", 1793
“In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
Albert Camus · Return to Tipasa, 1954
“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.”
Sam Keen
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
Albert Einstein · widely attributed to Einstein
“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.”
Henry David Thoreau · Walden, 1854
“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.”
Molière · Le Dépit Amoureux, 1656
“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”
William Ellery Channing · Self-Culture, 1838
“One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.”
Franklin A. Thomas · widely attributed to Franklin A. Thomas, former president of the Ford Foundation
“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”
William Shakespeare · Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 5
“There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.”
Audre Lorde · "Learning from the 60s," speech at Harvard, February 1982
“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.”
W.E.B. Du Bois · "John Brown," 1909
