Philosophy Quotes

“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”

― Elie Wiesel

“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”

― Dr. Seuss

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”

― May Sarton

“Simplicity, patience, compassion.

These three are your greatest treasures.

Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.

Patient with both friends and enemies,

you accord with the way things are.

Compassionate toward yourself,

you reconcile all beings in the world.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”

― Bertrand Russell

“May you live every day of your life.”

― Jonathan Swift

“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”

― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”

― Isaac Asimov

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

― Albert Einstein

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”

― Mahatma Gandhi

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

― Anne Frank,

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”

― Elie Wiesel