Philosopher Quotes

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Belief creates the actual fact.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.

The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men.

No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician.

A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man.

What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?

Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert.

The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.

The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated.

The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots.