“Let each thing you would do, say, or intend, be like that of a dying person.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
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Philosophy Quotes
363 quotes on philosophy and the big questions — from the classics to the everyday.
“Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.”
Epictetus · Enchiridion
“Bear in mind that everything that exists is already fraying at the edges.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“Everything that happens is either endurable or not. If it's endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“The willing are led by fate, the reluctant dragged.”
Seneca · Letters to Lucilius
“A blazing fire makes flame and brightness out of everything that is thrown into it.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well.”
Epictetus · Enchiridion
“I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth!”
Friedrich Nietzsche · The Gay Science, 1882
“My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity.”
Friedrich Nietzsche · Ecce Homo, 1888
“You talkin' to me?”
Travis Bickle · Taxi Driver, 1976
“You come to me and you say Don Corleone, give me justice. But you don't ask with respect.”
Vito Corleone · The Godfather, 1972
“Revenge is a dish best served cold.”
Vito Corleone · The Godfather, attributed in the film's world
“Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.”
Michael Corleone · The Godfather Part III, 1990
“In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the woman.”
Tony Montana · Scarface, 1983
“The world is yours.”
Tony Montana · Scarface, 1983
“It's not personal, Sonny. It's strictly business.”
Michael Corleone · The Godfather, 1972
