Philosophy Quotes
Wisdom of great philosophers in quotes and aphorisms
Socrates
-470 — -399
"I know that I know nothing."
12 quotes
Friedrich Nietzsche
1844 — 1900
"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
10 quotes
Immanuel Kant
1724 — 1804
"Dare to think!"
10 quotes
Plato
-427 — -347
"Dare to think!"
10 quotes
Aristotle
-384 — -322
"We are what we repeatedly do. Therefore, excellence is not an act but a habit."
9 quotes
Augustine of Hippo
354 — 430
"If I am mistaken, then I exist."
9 quotes
Thomas Aquinas
1225 — 1274
"God is the truth that must be accepted by reason."
10 quotes
Baruch Spinoza
1632 — 1677
"Everything that exists happens out of necessity, and nothing can be otherwise."
10 quotes
John Locke
1632 — 1704
"No knowledge arises in the mind unless it first comes through sensation."
10 quotes
David Hume
1711 — 1776
"Man is a being that perceives the world not only through reason but also through feelings."
9 quotes
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1712 — 1778
"Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains."
10 quotes
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
1770 — 1831
"Truth is a whole that can only be comprehended through development."
10 quotes
Arthur Schopenhauer
1788 — 1860
"Life is suffering, and only the renunciation of will brings freedom from suffering."
10 quotes
Karl Marx
1818 — 1883
"Philosophy does not exist to explain the world but to change it."
10 quotes
Friedrich Engels
1820 — 1895
"The working class must be the driving force of the revolution."
10 quotes
Leo Tolstoy
1828 — 1910
"All happy families are alike, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
10 quotes
Martin Heidegger
1889 — 1976
"Being is what truly matters in life."
10 quotes
Jean-Paul Sartre
1905 — 1980
"Man is condemned to be free."
10 quotes
Albert Camus
1913 — 1960
"Life is a struggle in which it is not about winning but about being worthy."
10 quotes
Michel Foucault
1926 — 1984
"Knowledge is power."
10 quotes
Gilles Deleuze
1925 — 1995
"Philosophy is the art of creating concepts."
10 quotes
Pythagoras
-570 — -495
"Everything is number."
6 quotes
Heraclitus
-535 — -475
"Everything flows, everything changes."
6 quotes
Epicurus
-341 — -270
"Happiness is not having much, but being content with what you have."
5 quotes