Philosophy Quotes

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.

It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.

The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

I think I am, therefore, I am... I think.

The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.

If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

I'm very polite by nature, even the voices in my head let each other finish their sentences.

If you're trapped in the dream of the Other, you're fucked.

The past has no power over the present moment.

Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever.

The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.

Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse