As my old philosophy professor once told me, even if you hate philosophy, that is, in fact, also philosophizing. Boy, I truly wasn’t too excited about that! However, some years passed, and I understood what he meant by that - philosophy is always there, whether you wish for it or not. And, thinking of it, there’s probably no other way of trying to explain the unexplainable than by using principles of philosophy where some exquisitely insightful person has put all your intangible and incoherent thoughts into one sentence, at least somewhat explaining humans, life, and all the burning questions stemming out of these topics. So, here we are, with our list of the best philosophy quotes that might spark your interest in this science or rekindle the fire you already have for it.
Surely, it is best to start your journey of understanding things with the words of the great philosophers like Nietzsche, Bertrand Russell, and Socrates. These are all names you will surely find mentioned in this article. However, not only philosophers have had some insights into the universe, so you might also expect to find some unexpected names like Frank Zappa, Albert Einstein, and Carl Sagan, who also contributed to the world of philosophy. All in all, it is a pretty comprehensive collection of philosophy quotes, whether you’re just a newbie or a bona fide scholar.
So, prepare to be blown away by these clever quotes you’re about to find just a scroll below! Once you are there, vote for the deep quotes that gave you something to think about, and share this article with your friends, too!
#101
“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.” ― Alan Wilson Watts
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#102
“It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way.” ― Rollo May
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#103
“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.” ― Aristotle
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#104
“God is dead! He remains dead! And we have killed him.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
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#105

“No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.” – John Locke
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#106
“It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.” – Bertrand Russell
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#107
“Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.” – G. W. F. Hegel
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#108
“Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.” – Immanuel Kant
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#109
“He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.” – Aristotle
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#110

“Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?” – Friedrich Nietzsche
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#111
“If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.” – Baruch Spinoza
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#112
“That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless.” – Plato
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#113
“It is wrong always, everywhere and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.” – W. K. Clifford
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#114

“Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature.” – John Locke
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#115
“To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.” – John Stuart Mill
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#116
“Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.” ― Norton Juster
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#117
“For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?” ― George Orwell
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#118
“I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned.” ― Harlan Ellison
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#119
“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.” ― Michel Foucault
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#120

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” — Mahatma Gandhi
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