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what is the philosophy of life? 50 quotes on philosophy of life Which will change your life.

what is the philosophy of life? 50 quotes on philosophy of life Which will change your life :


1. "It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."

          - Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland 

2. "Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is."

            - Albert Camus 

3. "Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. "

                                    - Frank Zappa 

4. "When what you hear and what you see don't match, trust your eyes." - Dale Renton 

5.  "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

                  - William Shakespeare, Hamlet 

6. "Wise men speak because they have something to say: fools because they have to say something." - Plato 

7. "Life is  really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." - Confucius

8. "The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."  - MARK TWAIN

9. "The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less."   - Socrates

10. "The nature of reality as you have never perceived it before the perspective from within." - PATRICK R. FERDINANDS

11. The philosophy of life is such that, sometime its your mistake, sometime its mine but this will be sorted over the dine This is how life is divine. If there is love, there will be mischief, if there is mischief, there will be complaints but don't hold these complaints in heart till end just leave those flaws behind Coz we are meant to be bind This is how life is defined.

12. "The Philosophy  of life is this: life is not a struggle, not a tension. life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence."   

                      - MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI

13. "Life goes on... Whether you choose to move on and take a chance in the unknown. Or stay behind, locked in the past, thinking of what could've been."

14. "life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced."

                        - SOREN KIERKEGAARD

15. Always end your day with a positive thought. No matter how things are, tomorrow is another chance to make things better.

16. "When you learn to survive without anyone, you can survive anything." 

                                          - THE SCULPTRESS

17. "You only learn when you give your whole being to something." 

                                     - J. KRISHNAMURTI

18. "Don't live your life through what-ifs, live it with I knows." - MARCO ZUNIGA

19. "Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence."

                                    - IMMANUEL KANT

20. "To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible." 

                                   - THOMAS AQUINAS

21. "Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act 'rightly' because we are 'excellent', in fact we achieve 'excellence' by acting 'rightly.'" 

                                                             - Plato

22. "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." - Plato

23. "But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves."

                    - Xenophanes

24. "God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought." 

                                              - Xenophanes

25. "It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man."  - Xenophanes

26. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."                                                        – Aristotle

27. "Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach." - Aristotle

28. "The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." - Aristotle 

29. "For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories." - PLATO

30. "Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others." - PLATO

31. "There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands." - Plato

32. "The purpose of life is happiness, which is achieved by virtue, living according to the dictates of reason, ethical and philosophical training, self reflection, careful judgment and inner calm."     

                                                    -  Stoicism

33. "Death does not concern us, because as long  as we exist, death is not here. And once it does come, we no longer exist."      

                                                           -Epicurus

34. "Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not."  - Epictetus

35. "Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."  - Epicurus

36. "Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?"

                                    - Epicurus

37. "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." - Plato

38. "Be the change you want to see in the World."   - Mahatma Gandhi

39. "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."  -Albert Einstein

40. "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."

                                     - Albert Einstein

41. "My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher." - Socrates

42. "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." - Friedrich Nietzsche 

43 "It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played." - Ludwig Wittgenstein

44. "If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done."  - Ludwig Wittgenstein 

45. "Philosophy is not a theory but an  activity." - Ludwig Wittgenstein

46. "Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language." - Ludwig Wittgenstein 

47. "In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule." - Friedrich Nietzsche

48. "The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad." - Friedrich Nietzsche

49. "Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!"                                            - Friedrich Nietzsche

50. "A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes." - Ludwig Wittgenstein

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