Philosophical Quotes

If you have already given thought to ...

"What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?"

It makes your decision a much easier one.

When all around you is chaos, your business is struggling and customers are not showing up, perhaps Albert Einstein can help...

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results."

There is a time and season for all things an ancient writer tells us. Others have walked rugged paths before you. Let these philosophical quotes help you with your perspective on life.

Grab a cup of coffee, take a settle down and enjoy...

Philosophical Quotes

What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
- Jesus Christ

Common sense is not so common.
- Voltaire

All that is needed for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
- C S Lewis

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
- Lewis Carrol, from...Alice in Wonderland


Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.
- Charles Mingus

When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.
- Albert Einstein


Who depends on another man's table often dines late
- John Ray

Ideas without action are worthless.
- Harvey Mackay

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
- George Orwell

Alice came to a fork in the road.  "Which road do I take?" she asked.

"Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat.

"I don't know," Alice answered.

"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
- Lewis Carroll, from...Alice in Wonderland

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
- Mark Twain

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results
- Albert Einstein

How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?

- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.
- Aristotle

Simplify, simplify, simplify.
- Henry David Thoreau

The sum total of all possible knowledge of God is not possible for a human being, not even through a true revelation. But it is one of the worthiest inquiries to see how far our reason can go in the knowledge of God.
- Immanuel Kant

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground.
- Annonymous

Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
- St. Augustine

Without God nothing can be conceived.
- Benedict de Spinoza

It is easy to build a philosophy--it doesn't have to run.
- Charles F. Kettering

The soul of man is immortal and imperishable
- Plato

You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost.
- Martha Graham

The obscure we see eventually.  The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. 
- Edward R. Murrow

Finding philosophical quotes and sayings and letting them move your thinking to a different level benefits everyone. Your touts are elevated, your reasoning becomes sharper and your life is more focused.

He's a final quote I want to leave you with...

“ So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom" - Psalm 90:12

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