Quotes by famous philosophers

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

William James

 

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

William James

 

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

William James

 

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

William James

 

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

William James

 

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

William James

 

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

William James

 

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.

Simone de Beauvoir

 

“That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

 

“Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

 

“The unexamined life is not worth living” – Socrates

 

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

 

“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
― Socrates

 

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
― Socrates

 

“Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.”
― Socrates

 

“Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”
― Socrates

 

“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”
― Socrates

 

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche