Philosophy Quotes

"Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have it depends solely on what you think."

"Happiness can exist only in acceptance."

"Never mind your happiness do your duty."

"Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all."

"Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness."

"The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies."

"Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets."

"I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary."

"Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world."

"I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around."

"I think Ronald Reagan was one of the great presidents, period, not just recently. I thought he had the demeanor. I thought he had the bearing. I thought he had the thought process."

"A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones."

"I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice."

"What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class."

"I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn't it great just being?"

"It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess."

"We're a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we're all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that's a marvelous thing."

"A great mind becomes a great fortune."

"The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men."

"What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera."