The Key to Life: In 365 Quotes

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A cat may look at a king.

John Heywood

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

Victor Hugo

A principle assumption held as fact on which decisions are based, while a doctrine is a fundamental belief how to act.

A tree that falls in a forest with noone around makes no sound, because it uses less energy.

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is.

T. S. Eliot

Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what is a heaven for?

Robert Browning

At the end of your life, you get into an Uber. Who's the driver? It's you. You look back at yourself and say, 'Hey! Great life! You're not going to remember anything, but onto the next one.

After the game the king and the pawn go in the same box.

Proverb

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

Proverb

All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

Voltaire

Art is a way to avoid dying from truths. By engaging in it, we can create something that is not true and thus prevent ourselves from being overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of reality.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Destiny gives a sense of familiarity.

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

William Johnson Neale

Do not leave anything not where it's supposed to be.

Empty your mind. Be formless. Shapeless. Like water. You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

Bruce Lee

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Famous last words: 'I go to seek a Great Perhaps.' That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.

John Green

Evil is the force that believes its knowledge is complete.

Jordan Peterson

Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness and dies by accident.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Existence precedes essence.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.

Epictetus

Free will is only possible with something bigger than you.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

Mahatma Gandhi

God is dead, God remains dead and we have killed him.

Friedrich Nietzsche

God is man's greatest idea.

Camille Paglia

He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing.

Epicurus

He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword.

The Bible

Heaven and hell exists, but it's here on earth.

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

I once asked Shrooms, 'What is the meaning of life?' It said, 'Shut up and get to work.

I think; therefore I am.

René Descartes

I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.

Ernest Hemingway

I would never die for my beliefs, because I might be wrong.

Bertrand Russell

I'd rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

Elon Musk

If it's universal then it's as close to sacred as possible.

Jordan Peterson

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

Baruch Spinoza

If you can do and be anything anytime, then everything is like nothing.

If you divide the world into the good and the bad and place yourself on the side of the good, then the odds of that being true is virtually zero.

Jordan Peterson

In Heaven all the interesting people are missing.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Ignorance is bliss.

Thomas Gray

If you get rid of free will, what's the point of free speech?

In choosing for myself I choose for all men.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Intellect associates with arrogance and pride. There is nothing outside of what you know.

John Milton

It can be true and you can still be wrong.

Jordan Peterson

It is in change that things find rest.

Heraclitus

It has gradually become clear to me what every great philosophy up til now has consisted of—namely, the confession of its originator and a species of involuntary and unconscious autobiography.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

Chuck Palahniuk

It is better to do nothing than to be busy doing nothing.

Proverb

Less is more.

Robert Browning

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Luxury is comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

Coco Chanel

Knowledge is power.

Francis Bacon

Leisure is the mother of philosophy.

Thomas Hobbes

Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Man is the measure of all things.

Protagoras

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

Immanuel Kant

Our thinking should have a vigorous fragrance, like a wheat field on a summer's night.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

William James

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.

René Descartes

Nihilism means that there is no meaning to anything, but the opposite is just as true, that there is meaning to everything.

Jordan Peterson

No man is a hero to his debtors.

Madame Cornuel

Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the comedian is the only thing that makes sense.

Alan Moore

Poverty is not shameful, but poverty without ambition is shameful.

Xiao Chuang You Ji

Philosophies necessary lead to a dead end, stuck on one idea in a well lit room of that idea.

Renouncing worldly desires is the goal of life.

Meher Baba

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Alan Watts

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

Heraclitus

Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.

Karl Marx

Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.

Friedrich Hegel

My worst enemy is my best friend.

Niladri Sekhar Dash

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

Soon I awaked and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

Zhuangzi

Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The best is the enemy of the good.

Voltaire

The absurd is the first truth.

Albert Camus

The bigger the better; in everything.

Freddie Mercury

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Winston Churchill

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are beauty, goodness and truth.

Albert Einstein

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The line between order and chaos is where you will find the most meaning.

Jordan Peterson

The oldest, shortest words - 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thought.

Pythagoras

The only thing I know is that I know nothing.

Socrates

The meaning of life and the theory of everything is the same thing.

The opposite of good is not evil. It is indifference. 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

The problem for us is not whether our desires are satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.

Slavoj Žižek

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Winston Churchill

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

William Arthur Ward

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

James Branch Cabell

The price of happiness is bondage, the price of freedom is loneliness.

C. S. Lewis

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Aristotle

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

Aristotle

The way you do anything is the way you do everything.

Martha Beck

The ultimate aim of martial arts is not having to use them.

Miyamoto Musashi

The word 'philosophy' means 'the love of wisdom.' Wisdom is the possession of knowledge, which in itself is only information: wisdom is the use of knowledge to pursue the good life.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

George Bernard Shaw

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do and that is to contradict other philosophers.

William James

There is nothing more dangerous than absolute certainty in one's beliefs.

Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

Friedrich Hegel

To define is to limit.

Oscar Wilde

This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Values aren't created it's discovered because we're not gods we can't create our own values.

Think of a life that is perfect in every way. Can you really imagine what that life would be like?

Brian Tracy

We live in the best of all possible worlds.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

We become what we behold. We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.

Marshall McLuhan

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

Hermann Hesse

We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.

Alan Moore

What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

Haruki Marukami

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

Sacha Guitry

Where is the life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

T. S. Eliot

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Which came first the chicken or the egg? The egg, laid by a bird that wasn't a chicken.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Why do bad things happen to good people?

When you get the message, it's time to hang up the phone.

Alan Watts

When you play games you must have limitations, if no limitations no games. The price of being is limitation or you can be or do whatever you want.

Jordan Peterson

When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.

Longchenpa

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

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

Cormac McCarthy